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...Russians that did it," complains a mariner in Gloucester, Mass. "They came here with their 'vacuum ships' and cleaned up." Not only the Soviet Union, but also Japan, East Germany, Poland, Iceland, Spain and other nations have been sending their big and in some cases government-subsidized fleets to the rich grounds beyond America's twelve-mile limit. Using modern stern trawlers and factory ships that can process and then freeze while still at sea, these fleets have been able to stay for months at a stretch where the fishing is good...
...phrase "banned in Boston" has been a titillating endorsement of smut for generations. Recently, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court struck down all the Commonwealth's obscenity laws as unconstitutionally vague, leaving literally nothing taboo in Cotton Mather's old domain. To fill the moral vacuum, the Massachusetts legislature's joint judiciary committee drew up a bill so graphic that when it was read aloud on the house floor by Representative Barney Frank, spectators in the gallery gasped...
...felt a general need for an instrument for the expression of black musical creativity," Lucas says. At first oriented toward sacred music, the group later developed a wider range, and it added poetry and prose readings. "We wanted to try and fill the vacuum for black creative arts. We saw it as a chance for spiritual communion, a forum for political views and for our belief in God," says Lucas...
...things to rival the inflation rate is the rising paranoia index. Need anyone be reminded of the fears and confusions that hang over from recent assassinations, wars and political scandals? It is a time that has caused -if not an actual power vacuum-at least an intense low-pressure area that readily attracts conspiracy theorists, occult mongers and alert topical novelists like Robert Lipsyte...
...original Swiss system, the flywheel (housed in a vacuum chamber to reduce friction from the air) will be used to produce electricity for the vehicle's 150-h.p. motor rather than to drive the wheels directly. If the flywheel's speed drops below its normal operational minimum (6,000 r.p.m.), the motor can be operated on power from overhead electric lines. Simultaneously, this power source-or in the future, underground transformers-can also be used to spin up the flywheel again...