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...Flash of Indignation. The Opposition may yet succeed in showing that Britain's security system was in fact breached, or that warnings from intelligence fell on deaf ears. Whatever the outcome of this week's Commons debate, there is a growing belief that...
...economic reverses they have suffered in the past year, Britons should conclude that Etonian and Harrovian leaders are personally no wiser or more upright-and in many cases they have proved flagrantly less so-than those whom they govern, twelve years of Tory government may end in a mighty flash of moral indignation mixed with ridicule...
Some time in 1964 three U.S. astronauts will wriggle into a bell-shaped Apollo capsule, strap themselves into contour couches and await the blast-off into a challenging two-week adventure. Through the capsule's windows, they will see the flash and smoke of blastoff, then the approaching clouds, the indigo sky, and finally the star-speckled blackness of outer space. Later, as they view the looming surface of the moon, they will begin another countdown to launch a smaller detachable capsule for a lunar landing. Before the astronauts see earth again, their skill and nerves will be severely...
Associated Press and United Press International kept direct lines to the Vatican Press Office open for days; they wore out several batteries listening to Vatican Radio, which unnerved everybody by broadcasting occasional bulletins in Swahili. Just 60 seconds after the Pope's death, U.P.I, carried a flash to all its U.S. clients: POPE DEAD. A.P., whose man on the phone tipped over backward in his swivel chair when he heard the words "E morte!" from the Vatican pressroom, still managed to fire off a bulletin two minutes later...
...make them invaluable servants: argon for welding, krypton for long-lasting light bulbs, and xenon for high-intensity lights such as those used at airports. Even the more common gases are moving into new fields. In the next few months a big food processor will announce that it is flash-freezing fruits and vegetables with liquid nitrogen, which locks in that on-the-vine flavor. Last week McDonnell Aircraft announced that it has ordered eight special nitrogen-cooled chambers that re-create the lonely cold and vacuum of outer space...