Word: tranquillity
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...might be the site for a villainous Ian Fleming scheme wherein a Dr. No or a Goldfinger concocts a plan to conquer the world, only to be thwarted in the end by a quick-thinking James Bond. The caves in the Kansas City area actually serve a far more tranquil purpose: commerce. More than 3,000 people are at work for 170 companies 110 ft. to 200 ft. below the gently rolling scene on the surface...
...racial tension seethes close to the town's tranquil surface. Thousands of migrant farm workers, mostly Chicano, are left unemployed each winter because it sometimes gets too cold to grow the apples and lettuce they pick for a living Chicano-Anglo animosity frequently bubbles over into violence, and even murder. For its size, the city has one of the highest crime rates in the country...
...That was the way it went, around the world; across the southern reaches of the Indian Ocean to Sydney, Australia; through the roaring forties and raging fifties of the southern ocean to Cape Horn, the sailor's nemesis; then on to Rio de Janeiro; and during the relatively tranquil run back to Newport...
...despite the falloff in membership and the tranquil surroundings, McManus insists that the John Birch Society is thriving. It occupies three full buildings in the Belmont area alone. It has a national payroll of more than 175. Through its Western Islands Publishing Company, the Society prints four magazines, each with circulation hovering around 45,000. McManus one of the few official spokesmen for the Society--writes a syndicated column published in more than 100 county newspapers, although few big city papers run "The Birch Log." Recently, McManus has appeared on CBS's "Nightwatch" and is also scheduled for "PBS Latenight...
...props them up for a time, before the inevitability of death. The author recalls a tranquil scene in his mother's faculty apartment. He is a participant, as are his parents and grandmother: "As we sit for this last picture, each of us in this room has been similarly reduced, our lives slowly coming together, reduced to this peaceful essence layered by fragrant pipe smoke, this remedy of time that my mother's pen stroke seems to prescribe with each scratch upon a term paper. My travels are over." And so is his moving, inclusive book, near...