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...Carter was able to resume his political career. He ran for Governor again in 1970, won that election, and two years later began planning his presidential campaign. He was no longer plagued by doubts. His gubernatorial victory and spiritual rebirth gave him the fortification he needed to storm the twin citadels of Washington and the "special interests." He was content that what he was doing was not inherently sinful-indeed, that it probably met with God's approval...
...least it made him a fascinating and enigmatic figure. Unfortunately, Wolff does little more than establish this. He fails to illuminate the mechanism of Harry's transformation from a conventional boy to a man famous for his quirks. He offers few clues to the sources of Harry's twin obsessions, death and literature. In fact, Black Sun is often nothing more than an inventory of Harry's peculiarities; Wolff's writing is uninformed by any consistent sense of what made Crosby what he was. It may be interesting to know that Caresse, as a debutante, invented a special kind...
Construction workers at the Hakodate civilian airport on Hokkaido, the northernmost of the main Japanese islands, could hardly believe their eyes when a strange and spectacular-looking aircraft, a red star emblazoned on each of its twin tails, suddenly swept in for an unexpected landing. As the plane touched down, a tire blew out, and the plane rolled beyond the end of the mile-long runway before braking to a stop. When the workers rushed closer for a better view, a young man in a gray flying suit and white helmet climbed out, brandishing an automatic pistol. "Get back...
...necessarily change all that, but it is still something of a shocker. Disco is going live-o. At the start, the focal point-of the average discotheque was that man in the glass booth-the one with the earphones on, the head bobbing rhythmically, the hands leaping adroitly from twin turntables to control sequencers. He was, and still is, the disc jockey, busily programming your dancing pleasure. Did the little lady want to dance the Hustle or the Muscle? Ol' Deejay had a ditty for every kitty and her boogying big daddy as well. One reason for the rise...
...John Riteris, now in his early 40s, was stricken by severe kidney disease. Faced with the prospect of imminent death-or dismal years on a kidney machine-he agreed to what was then still a highly experimental treatment: replacement of his dying kidneys with one donated by his twin brother. Now, 17 years later, John Riteris is one of the longest survivors of what is a major unsung success story of contemporary medicine: kidney transplants...