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...only a small fraction (less than 10 per cent) of the full amount allotted by the government for research and development. It is also important to remember that the large majority of colleges--and the fields of the social sciences and humanities in all institutions--have felt almost no impact from federal research programs...
Below, 30-mile gales were churning the Atlantic into loft whitecaps. On impact, the plane's left wing snapped off, and the 76 people aboard-many U.S. paratroopers en route to duty in Europe-were catapulted forward. Thanks to the pilot's skill, the cabin stayed in one piece. Said one awed survivor: "God had his hands on the controls." One couple leaped hand in hand from the escape hatch, only to be separated in the sea. Two children were tossed out before the cabin went under, but were never seen again. Seven men linked arms to stay...
Obviously, Millar had to dispense with Eliot's woollyminded ruminations, and, probably, he had to retain what little dialogue Snow himself wrote in order to claim any connection with the novel; the effect of his dramatization, is to bury Snow's lines and blur whatever impact they may have had in the book...
There is no doubt about the impact of Silent Spring; it is a real shocker. Many unwary readers will be firmly convinced that most of the U.S.-with its animals, plants, soil, water and people-is already laced with poison that will soon start taking a dreadful toll, and that the only hope is to stop using chemical pesticides and let the age-old "balance of nature" take care of obnoxious insects...
Emphatically no. said the Justice Department last week in a significant federal suit involving the Government for the first time as original plaintiff in a school desegregation case. The target: Virginia's Prince George County,* site of Fort Lee, which houses the Army Quartermaster School. While getting hefty impact aid, Prince George last year assigned 117 of Fort Lee's Negro children to Negro schools. The Justice Department goal is not to cut off the aid, but to force an end to segregation. Ultimate aim: the same for about 70 other impacted school districts throughout the South...