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...resolution that took dead aim at the election. "When a public official is inescapably bound by the dogma and demands of his church, he cannot consistently separate himself from these. This is especially true when that church maintains a position in open conflict with our established and constituted American pattern of life as specifically related to religious liberty, separation of church and state, the freedom of conscience in matters related to marriage and the family, the perpetuation of free public schools and the prohibition against use of public monies for sectarian purposes...
Direct Hit? This time the pattern changed. Over Sverdlovsk in the Soviet Urals, where his flight plan called for a half-left turn to take him northwestward toward Norway, Powers suddenly ran into trouble-probably an engine failure. "He's coming lower," said excited Russian radiomen. Listeners at U.S. outposts hung helplessly on every word while Russian antiaircraft batteries chattered tersely about the enemy plane spiraling downward into range. When the U-2 dropped to 40,000 ft., the Russians stopped talking...
...importance of dreams became evident. Dr. Dement now reports, when the researchers reversed their techniques to keep their volunteer subjects from dreaming. Instead of waking them at the end of an E.E.G. dream-pattern period (which averages about 20 minutes), they aroused them at the beginning. Through the night, these dream-deprived subjects got as much sleep as the previous group. But during successive dreamless nights they tried to dream oftener, up to 30 times on the fifth night. In contrast to the control subjects, who were wakened only after dreaming, this group became irritable and upset during waking hours...
Elephant Walk. "Under increased gravity," says Wunder, after studying motion pictures of his high-G hamsters, "the hamsters walk around and seem to adapt very nicely, but their walking pattern is more like an elephant than a hamster. They're a bit perturbed about having to carry a bigger load." When young mice or hamsters are put on a centrifuge, they usually lose considerable weight for three or four days. "Apparently they have trouble digesting their food," says Dr. Wunder. "They level off and gain back their original weight, but they never get as big as ordinary mice...
...marketing facilities for a heavy offensive, often cannot offer customers a sustained flow of oil at the same price. Big customers therefore must depend on the majors for oil - at the majors price. Furthermore, the majors are not above ganging up on an independent that challenges the price pattern, bringing the full weight of their power to bear...