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...middle 19th century, Vermonters occasionally wondered whether their cherished Green Mountains might not disappear beneath a new deluge of alcoholic spirits. Vermont Hero Ethan Allen and his hardy band had stormed Fort Ticonderoga smelling of rum; then more and more Green Mountain men were descending "The Fatal Ladder," (see cut) whose first step down was a social swig of hard cider. "Everybody asked everybody to drink," remarked an 1830 observer. "There were drunken lawyers, drunken doctors, drunken members of Congress, drunken ministers." Today, recovered from rum and soberly situated in the middle 20th century, Vermont has begun to worry about...
...However, if you eliminate the money factor," he continued, "the other factors will disappear." The lack of money available to scientists doing research for the government is "the bottleneck that really hurts," the professor concluded...
...this for the simple reason that the parts apparently have no existence independent of the whole. Indeed, Casals himself, while he is playing, seems to have no existence independent of the music. Watching him, it is quite easy to imagine that if the music should stop, he would disappear...
...Jewish friend's Odessa apartment one night and interrogated for 26 hours by secret police agents, apparently convinced that the Youth Festival outbursts could not have been spontaneous and must have been organized with embassy help. He was told that if he did not cooperate, "You will simply disappear and your clothes will be found upon the beach...
...released a statement that all Ireland interpreted as a treaty of peace. As a reporter for the Irish Times put it: "There was no rejoicing in Fethard-on-the-Sea yesterday, but there was a new air of hope in the village. Obviously, however, [the boycott] will not disappear as though by the wave of a magic wand...