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Thus history in troubled Argentina came full circle. Less than a month after his return from 18 years of enforced exile abroad, the way had been prepared for Juan Domingo Perón officially to take total command in Argentina...
...scales with a ten-foot pole of fashionable sentiment tends to lopsided results. Such practices may sharpen the edge of wit but they blunt, if not miss, the point of dialectics. Hence the temptation to subscribe to the thesis that whatever the depth and seriousness of mind a dialectical command of reality requires, it must be incompatable with the temperamental high-jinks needed to produce...
...pictures ranged from those of the astronauts engaged in everyday activities inside their cavernous spacecraft -showering, eating and undergoing medical tests in zero-G -to dramatic exterior views of Skylab itself. One particularly stunning photograph, taken from the Apollo command ship after the astronauts left Skylab, shows the 80-ton space station circling the cloud-covered earth. The makeshift sunshade, erected by the astronauts after the loss of the original shielding during launch, and the single surviving solar wing on the orbital workshop section are clearly visible. The photographs also offer a close-up view of the damaged equipment, including...
...expected to bring a detached and professional point of view to a case, and that on the other the lawyer as advocate is expected to represent his client's interest and vigorously advance it. It is true that flamboyant trial lawyers often use every legal means at their command to win a case for even a guilty man. Yet the balance in the Watergate affair apparently tipped disastrously in favor of excessive advocacy...
...Bill. Bill payment is only one service that the touch telephone user can command from the computer. By entering different combinations of numbers, an account holder can have the computer calculate twice-monthly and year-to-date totals for his household expenses; check his addition, subtraction, multiplication and division in figuring out accounts; send him biweekly reminders of important dates coming up; or even figure out his estimated federal income tax and send him, between...