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...miles from touchdown when the runway lights dimmed and disappeared. Turning toward the ocean, Captain Gus Konz lost radio contact with the tower, which by that time was operating on fast-fading emergency power. Unable to contact Kennedy, Konz pointed the nose of the 248,000-lb. plane westward and minutes later set down at Newark Airport...
Penkovsky's memoir-smuggled out of Russia on one of the secret routes that carried Abram Tertz's and Boris Pasternak's works westward-is gritty and gripe-ridden in its condemnation of Moscow's upper-echelon morals, and filled with "revelations" presumably intended to compromise Soviet agents...
...AMERICANS: THE NATIONAL EXPERIENCE, by Daniel J. Boorstin. Historian Boorstin bases his cultural history of the U.S. on what is home-grown American rather than what was modified from European life. The "booster" who followed the pioneer westward and developed the country is his hero; his villain the Southern planter, who borrowed all of English agrarian life and needed slaves to make it work...
...AMERICANS: THE NATIONAL EXPERIENCE, by Daniel J. Boorstin. Historian Boorstin bases his cultural history of the U.S. on what is home-grown American rather than what was modified from European life. The "booster" who followed the pioneer westward and developed the country is his hero; his villain the Southern planter, who borrowed all of English agrarian life and needed slaves to make it work...
...large implications of the complex's commercial impact remain unanswered. In ten or fifteen years, will the small stores along Mt. Auburn Street near the yards' be replaced with motels or restaurants? Or, perhaps the drawing power of the Library complex will simply move general commercial activity westward? The questions are as interesting as they are illusive, though Pei's insistence on eating places and souvenir shops shows that he is making a few reasonable guesses. (Pei will also ask the Library Corporation to have another study done--this one on the market impact of the Library's presence...