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...steaming regularly through three oceans, tommies quartered at volatile fronts and its airplanes based from Cornwall to Hong Kong, Britain still supports a sizable chunk of the West's defense capability. A succession of budgetary cutbacks, including four in the past two years, has stretched its forces ever thinner. But, as recently as last summer, Whitehall's defense planners referred to the notion of pulling back from east of Suez as "long term" - a decade away, perhaps...
...General Manager Paul Richards of the Atlanta Braves says: "The only two leagues in which a player can hit .220 and get a raise are the American League and the National League." Last week, meeting in Mexico City, National League owners decided to spread the talent even thinner. Following the lead of the American League, which will expand to twelve teams in 1969, they voted to grant new franchises to two as yet unnamed cities (probably San Diego and Dallas) "not later than...
Meanwhile six shelf stacks are being converted into seven-shelf stacks wherever the books are small enough for the shelves to be made thinner, and temporary wooden bookcases stand at the end of some aisles to hold the overflow...
There are several much older pictures, now warped and cracking, in which George looks much thinner. These early pictures are of him conducting choruses of white ones and black ones, as he says. That was in Harlem, where he lived for a time after coming from North Carolina...
...critics who point out that it would be difficult for life to arise spontaneously in the atmosphere, Morowitz and Sagan have a ready answer: it did not. Instead, they postulate, ancient Venus had a much thinner atmosphere; its surface, now superheated by the greenhouse effect of a thick carbon-dioxide-filled atmosphere, was once cool enough to spawn life. As more gas was spewed into the atmosphere by volcanic action, however, the surface temperatures gradually became unbearable and could have driven the more buoyant organisms into the clouds, where they evolved and may well exist today...