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...Harlem, a bus driver remarked last week, "It's fine with me if Adam stays out of Washington, because then we're not going to pay our taxes. No taxation without representation." But one Harlem Democrat saw Adam's vacuum differently: "He's been away from the people too long. He should come back and fight like a man. There are plenty of other good men around...
...Philip Neri Catholic Church, including one of its assistant pastors, form the nucleus of an underground congregation called Vatican 21. Why the name? Explains Robert Keeley, 29, a schoolteacher: "The church was supposed to be carrying out the spirit of Vatican II, instead all we got was Vacuum II." The cell conducts its own baptisms-the whole contingent turning out to sing hymns over the baby-and meets every other Tuesday night in one of its members' homes for prayer and religious discussion...
...vital in the early 1960's at Harvard; it was intellectually oriented and lasted as long as ban-the-bomb was an issue, but the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty wiped out TOCSIN's importance. In 1964, the old TOCSIN remnants and several new groups combined to fill the vacuum for civil rights and peace activities. The TOCSIN tradition was one of sophisticated analysis and objectivity, but in the past year there have been trends both towards more emotionally satisfying tactics of confrontation and towards quiet community organizing...
...Shukairy, who fled from the front even before the first shots were fired, was so thoroughly discredited that Palestinians no longer want anything to do with him, and the Arab states have cut off the P.L.O.'s $15 million yearly subsidy. Shukairy's fall created a vacuum of leadership, which is now being filled by West Bank Arabs who hope to get the best deal they can from Israel...
...blast ahead, full-bore, from the start of a race, hoping opponents will overtax their engines trying to catch him. He is also an innovator; he invented the dangerous art of "drafting"-keeping his car practically on top of an opponent's rear bumper, using the partial vacuum created by the other car as a tow, thus conserving his own engine and fuel. Unlike many drivers, who make a fetish of braking and shifting at precisely the same points each time around a track. Petty varies his routine: "I drive by feel," he says. "Sometimes...