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Bradesku testified that his wife's affection for him began to wane two years ago. That was when she started listening to broadcasts of the Radio Church of God, a fundamentalist sect that claims 40,000 members and prepares a weeknightly program that is heard on 210 U.S. radio stations. The message got through to Mrs. Bradesku, and she became something of a student of the church's beliefs, according to her oldest son, who testified for his father. What particularly bothered her was a growing feeling that, since her husband had been divorced once, her marriage...
...early 1890's, Harvard's domination of college track began to wane. The Golden Age began to tarnish after the Crimson's 11th Intercollegiate title in 1892--its last for a long time. For the next four years, Harvard struggled to stay in contention. Then, in 1896--its last pressive last gasp effort that would be followed by a sustained slump in the track department--Harvard's tiny contingent to the first of the modern Olympic Games in Athens picked up five gold medals...
...Julian Stanczak as well as by the empty canvas of Manhattan Minimalist Robert Mangold, and the sheet of lacquered aluminum from Los Angeles' Billy Al Bengston (representative of what one Whitney curator dubbed California's "finish fetish"). But abstraction as an end in itself is on the wane. Artists everywhere are tending to combine it with figurative elements, or give their abstractions the illusion of three-dimensional space. One shaped canvas by Washington's Thomas Downing is painted to produce the optical illusion of five shelves piled on top of each other, while a seemingly abstract composition...
...even race all the way. But just at the end Shrout's strength began to wane in the last half lap. Heesch won, giving Army the meet...
...Congress and the career military. He apparently felt that intelligence, reason, and eloquence were adequate compensation for skilled bureaucratic diplomacy. In seizing perquisites from Armed Services committees, admirals, and generals, he cultivated so many enemies throughout Washington that his influence in the past year could not do anything but wane...