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...television ads and have them say, 'It isn't going to take much for them to go after me for the same reason.' " Instead, NCPAC's most expensive campaign ($625,000) turned the slumbering Sarbanes into an active campaigner. What Sarbanes called the "alien presence" of NCPAC became such an issue that Opponent Lawrence Hogan finally threw up his hands on television and declared, "I hereby denounce NCPAC." The Democrats, apparently agreeing, swept Maryland, and Sarbanes...
...sphere of gases into a small glowing sun capable of sustaining life on its satellites. As before, the monolith remains the piece that passeth all understanding. But no matter. Clarke deftly blends discovery, philosophy and a newly acquired sense of play that manifests itself in references to films like Alien and Star Wars, and snippets from recent headlines. If, by the end, he leaves readers as bewildered as his astronauts, they can at least claim to have been better entertained...
...could count on the immediate sellout of a 2 million-copy press run. No other prose writer of the post-Stalin generation commanded such an impassioned following; no other offered a more radical departure from the standard Socialist Realist fare. His nonconformity came naturally. Aksyonov had been born an alien in the Soviet world. He was the child of Stalin's victims: his father Pavel, the former Communist mayor of Kazan, served 18 years in the Gulag, and his mother Eugenia Ginzburg wrote two books about her own 18-year ordeal...
Naval officials here expressed skepticism over Flintstong's story, but refused to confirm or deny the possibility that the alien submarine might have been manned by French Canadian rather than Soviets, as had previously been assumed. "Everyone's under suspicious," commented Capt. Sven Jorgansfut...
...were alien in some ways. There were ways I could have reached out. It was not an antagonistic attitude. It is just not part of my personality. I do not condemn the cocktail circuit. It is just not natural for me to be part...