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...deja vu became even more vivid when Buckley led another drive deep into Brown territory, and then threw an interception. He went back to pass on second-and-ten, a minute into the second quarter...
...second volume of his memoirs when he died on January 19, 1980; his editors have just released The Court Years, his story of life on the bench. There is little sentiment; there are many facts, several insights. Not a page-turner, or even a "pageant-of-history" in vivid colors, it demands to be taken seriously as the final document of a man who did so much to shape American society--almost always for the better...
...Days That Shook the World," a highly sympathetic treatment of the revolution, attracted glowing praise from Lenin, who wrote in a preface to the book's first edition in 1923, "Unreservedly I recommend it to the workers of the world...a truthful and most vivid exposition of the events so significant...to the Dictatorship of the Proletariat...
...American ads are vivid evidence of the impressive pace at which U.S. trade with the People's Republic is growing in everything from bread baking equipment to jet planes. Since the normalization of relations in 1978, trade between the two nations has leaped from $1.1 billion to this year's projected $4 billion. Commerce Department officials estimate that by 1985 U.S. trade with China will reach at least $10 billion annually, in contrast with $7 billion or less for the U.S.S.R. The most promising exports from the U.S. to China are agricultural products, which now make up more...
...apple pie he lovingly cuts up in a Cambridge University dining room in order to make a point about matter. He is the quintessential schoolmaster; he makes such a classical experiment as Christiaan Huygens' determination of the distance of the stars with only a perforated brass disc seem as vivid today as when it was performed three centuries ago. In the words of one admiring reviewer, he is the prince of popularizers, the nation's scientific mentor to the masses...