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...awed by the giant eight-engine B-52s with their 30 tons of bombs. People who spent several years in the vicinity of Vinh Linh, near the 17th parallel, where B-52s were operating practically every day, explain to us: "Of course, if you're just underneath, you haven't much of a chance. But when you get used to them, you know how not to be underneath. Just look at Quang Tri. With their thousands of tons of bombs, they didn't stop our troops." And they add matter-of-factly: "Do you have a flashlight...
...confidence to go on to a brilliant career. Norman, a graduate student in mathematics who, with inordinate sense of purpose, sets himself aflame when he turns against the war. Shelly, the prototypical early-hippie who sprinkles her conversation with "far-outs" the way other people use casual obscenities. Dick, underneath the smooth exterior a creep held over from the fifties who's reported to be making it with his tutor's wife. Most importantly, Mike and Cootie, two blithe spirits, masters of the put-on, who pretend to hold-the show together through the incantatory appeal of their preposterous school...
...potassium-spiked orange juice prescribed by doctors to counteract the effects of weightlessness (see MEDICINE). The strange potion did not seem to bother him on the second moon walk, when the astronauts took more core samples, picked up rocks, and pushed over a large boulder to collect soil from underneath it (so scientists can compare the effects of cosmic-ray bombardment on varying soil samples). They drove the rover several hundred feet up Stone Mountain and, after parking it on what they thought was a dangerously steep slope, they simply picked it up and put it down in a more...
...room palace, having little to do except entertain dignitaries and pass out Nobel Prizes. Of all these changes, the prince says, "Monarchy is an old tradition, and I don't see how a country can live without tradition. It would be like walking on water. Nothing solid underneath...
...line of ticket holders across the street to stand aimlessly in front of a department store. Finally, as superintendent of an apartment building, he "hustled garbage cans" and lived in a basement room. Taped to his door with Band-Aids was an 8-by-10 glossy of himself. Underneath was written "super." Says Pacino, "That was down about as far as anyone...