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...uncertainties in the historic impeachment inquiry now under way in the Congress are astronomical. But impeachment sentiment is rising, and a trial of the President in the Senate is increasingly probable. Senators and Representatives are trying to determine how and when these momentous events will unfold...
There has been little doubt for months that the consuming issue of the 1974 mid-term vote will be Watergate. But with Election Day just seven months away, candidates and leaders of both parties are increasingly realizing that much of the campaign may unfold against more than just a scandal: it could well coincide with the first presidential impeachment proceeding in more than a century...
...council last night also passed Councillor Alfred E. Vellucci's motion ordering the C.E. Maguire Inc., consultants for the Kennedy Library project, to appear at a public hearing "to unfold all the information about the library...
Though Life is rewarding enough when played manually, it takes on an added dimension when played on the computer, which causes the varied patterns to unfold much more rapidly. The computer can either place the counters at random or follow the operator's placement instructions. Readily programmed to obey Life's rules, it can then perform the necessary calculations in a flash and display the changing patterns on a cathode ray tube, providing a remarkable kaleidoscopic show. Sometimes the counters quickly settle into what Conway calls "still lifes" - stable, unchanging figures, including those known in the game...
Wilson's imagination is hallucinatory, evoking the visions of drug takers. It is also surreal. If Dali had not thought of a melting watch, Wilson could have. Stalin does not unfold through logic, but through phantasmagorical sequences, as if dancers were paradoxically miming still lifes...