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...research began after CIA officials were horrified by Jozsef Cardinal Mindszenty's vacant stare and mechanical voice at his 1949 treason trial in Budapest. Drugs and mind-control techniques had long been used by intelligence services, but the CIA feared that the Communists had made some breakthrough. By 1953, the CIA concluded that its worries were unfounded; still the research continued, despite some official misgivings...
...living in Rhodesia for 13 years. If there were a political settlement, would he change his mind? "No," he says firmly. "All that Rhodesia has left now is the sun." Ian Edwards, 33, a grain research specialist, emigrated last year to South Africa and later the U.S., leaving a vacant house near Salisbury that he could not sell. His parents stayed on in Rhodesia "They're too old to run," he says...
More people are literally tending their own gardens. Vacant lots and small backyards are sprouting with tomatoes, radishes and zucchini?even in unlikely places like Boston and New York City, where local gangs like the Renegades of East Harlem and the Savage Homicides of Brooklyn are growing vegetables. Pressure cookers and Ball jars for putting up preserves are selling well; so are ice cream makers and, for fancier cooks, the electric food processors that can puree anything except tennis balls...
Alberta Arthurs, acting dean of freshmen, has not been selected as the first choice of the search committee to fill the currently vacant post, an official in the freshmen's dean office said yesterday...
...finds it empty of meaning, as insensible as the coal to which his father has mortgaged his existence. "It's no good hanging on," Colin finally tells the older woman he deserts, with sudden insight. The alternative, beautifully inevitable in Saville, is to walk fearlessly ahead into a vacant future, armed only with the prayer that life, freed from its bondage to the past, is indeed limitless...