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...holding my "face" in one hand, I began to demolish the project with a hammer in the other. Pieces near my eyes broke off, and Bette sliced away blindly with a pair of scissors, shearing off my eyelashes. Once I could see, I was able to remove my inch-thick plaster skullcap by crushing it with a pair of pliers and combing out the remains. I had a rather blank expression for several weeks...
...Viet Nam. It overwhelmingly approved Lyndon Johnson's request for $13 billion in supplemental war appropriations, enacted L.B.J.'s proposal for a $1.2 billion increase in auto and telephone taxes to help finance the war. Speaker John McCormack succeeded in keeping House Democrats from wavering an inch on Administration war policy, while the Senate's so-called "peace liberals," led by William Fulbright, have proved largely ineffectual...
Daytime TV now reaches about 140 million women a week, women who are in the money-and in the market for detergents, beauty aids, foods, baby products and hundreds of other advertisable commodities. But the 25-inch screen offers them little more than sodden, sorrowful soap operas, plus situation-comedy reruns, game shows and old movies. Save for the sell, it might be 1956; except for the pictures, it could be 1936 and the heyday of daytime radio...
...that breaks the droplets down into still smaller sizes. The tiny particles or droplets are then placed in a solution of coating material, which congeals around them when the temperature, acidity or concentration of the solution is changed-forming capsules as small as one twenty-five-thousandth of an inch in diameter...
...premise of faith?the existence of a personal God, who created the world and sustains it with his love?is now subject to profound attack. "What is in question is God himself," warns German Theologian Heinz Zahrnt, "and the churches are fighting a hard defensive battle, fighting for every inch." "The basic theological problem today," says one thinker who has helped define it, Langdon Gilkey of the University of Chicago Divinity School, "is the reality...