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...strongest, and one's own claims most open to question. But frontier wars are the inescapable moments of truth for an empire. That America is now 'dissipating' her resources in small wars around the world seems to me, therefore, a meaningless criticism. The 'cloud of critics' at the center, as Gibbon contemptuously dismissed them, may react nervously to every exercise of their country's power. But I have traveled in some of the states and have found in the mass of her people a sense of purpose, even a clearness of mission, which...
Nauru is no Bali Ha'i, but it suits its 2,700 inhabitants down to the ground. Since the ground is almost solid phosphate, the natives support themselves by selling it off at the rate of some 1,800,000 tons a year. The only cloud on the horizon is the fact that by 1995 the 5,263-acre island will be stripped of phosphate (used for fertilizer), leaving a big, barren pothole in the Pacific, 2,500 miles northeast of Sydney. Then Nauru's dark-skinned population will have to move to another, less tight little island...
...TIME missed the most important feature of our observations of the Icelandic volcano [June 11]. We found that the process responsible for the volcano lightning does not occur in the volcano cloud, as had previously been supposed, but instead takes place underground before the hot eruption gases escape into the atmosphere...
...sound and fury, the military problem stood foremost. The air support that saved the day at Quangngai and Binhchanh cannot be counted on in the rainy weeks ahead, when monsoonal cloud ceilings will touch the roof of the highland jungles. For much of each day during the next few months it will be a ground war, with the weather favoring the hit-and-run tactics of the lightly equipped Communists. With the rains beginning in South Viet Nam, small streams are already swelling into muddy torrents that will soon wash out bridges and roads...
...Muse. This book makes no more sense than the king's English, but it projects the same fey charm. It is no longer than a summer's reverie in an aluminum chaise longue, where it was clearly designed to be read. Its gossamer plot drifts like a cloud; its characters have all the substantiality of that scarlet flash in the lilac bush that may have been a hummingbird. What delicate diplomatic mission has brought Bemis to Suruk? Why does Sajjid offer him $1,000,000 to come, and why does Bemis refuse the fee? For what reason...