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Tricky Tool. "Why we are in Viet Nam," says Schlesinger, "is today a question of mainly historical interest. We are there, for better or for worse, and we must deal with the situation that exists." Fortunately, he goes on anyway to trace the history of that involvement, and that part of the book makes most compelling reading...
Speaking with a slight trace of his native Australia, Hayes explained why he had to give up swimming...
...well reach for a Gillette razor blade, Colgate toothpaste, and hair lotion that comes in a bottle made by an Owens-Illinois subsidiary. After he downs his Maxwell instant coffee with Libby condensed milk, his wife, trim in her Lycra stretch bra, kisses him goodbye, leaving only a trace of Revlon lipstick. In his Ford Taunus, or G.M. Opel, fueled with Esso gasoline, he drives to an office equipped with Remington typewriters, ITT telex machines and IBM computers. While his wife runs a Hoover vacuum cleaner, a Singer sewing machine and a Sunbeam iron, he confers with his American advertising...
...begin the easy match, first men Anil Nayar and Rick Sterne easily swept their opponents, 3-0. The only trace of a challenge came on numbers three through five where Harvard players each dropped a game...
Radioisotopes are now commonly introduced into the body's various systems to allow doctors to trace functions and spot malfunctions with sensitive scanners. But radioactivity is the peril as well as the point of using the particles, reported Quinn, since too much of it during the testing can harm the patient. The ideal, therefore, is to find a radioactive substance with a short half-life that will decay quickly after passing on the information doctors need. The problem is that the unstable substances live so briefly they must be manufactured as short a time as possible before their...