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...enormous popularity, especially with young readers. His novels are clear, simple, funny, humane and need hardly any explaining at all. His Dynamic Tension draws the beach bully and the runt who is getting sand kicked in his face toward the same bitter fate. Both will grow old, die and vanish in a universe that is 99.9% indifferent vacuum. There are no immortal souls in Vonnegut, only the soles of the feet which his Bokononists in Cat's Cradle warm by ritually flattening against other friendly soles...
...subordinates. In responding, Truman characteristically attacked rather than turned defensive. When the railroad workers struck, he threatened to seize the railroads. In early 1948, his popularity was at a low ebb. Panicky party strategists declared that if the Democrats did not appease the South, the party would vanish. Some seriously suggested that Truman should resign. Truman responded by proposing an elaborate series of civil rights measures that only further antagonized the South...
...each year, won't the jocks be dropped first? Will women be integrated into the athletic teams? Will Brown beat Yale? The answers to these questions run to the core of the colleges' educational and athletic goals. As one student at Yale put it, "Yale's glory will quickly vanish with sex-blind admissions...
Common Trick. In the wee hours of the morning of Aug. 8, the sonar suddenly indicated that something was lurking near by in some 45 ft. of water. After a time, whatever was there disappeared, only to reappear a few minutes later and then vanish again. Rines had his men play a strong spotlight on the waters, a common trick used to attract fish. To Rines' delight, the light apparently had an effect on whatever was in the loch; the sonar resumed its odd tracings. The evidence, which was examined by experts in sonar at M.I.T., Raytheon...
...grandiloquently dubbed "the war of the flags." In fact, it is quite possibly the world's silliest international dispute. Nicaragua and Colombia are battling for jurisdiction over Quita Sueño and two smaller islets, Roncador and Serrana-all desolate, uninhabited specks of sand, coral and rock that vanish from sight during high tide...