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...rolling hills of Santa Clara County, 60 miles southeast of San Francisco, a man-made volcano erupted. A brilliant flame spewed 200 ft. in the air, and a screaming roar rolled across the country, knocking birds to the ground and shaking a helicopter that hovered a mile away. The eruption was over in less than two minutes, but its reverberations would shake more than helicopters. This was the first test of United Aircraft Corp.'s big, new solid-fuel rocket engine, and it was completely successful. Partisans of solid fuel will cite it proudly in claiming for solids...
...target practice, wrote Barbot in a letter to Papa Doc. A few weeks later, Barbot's men pounced on schoolhouses where peasants had been herded in like cattle, waiting to shout Vive Papa Doc at a government rally. Seven were killed-and word of the terror started to shake Duvalier's regime. Duvalier sent militia patrols to comb Port-au-Prince's festering slums. But Barbot laid clever ambushes: in one fight alone, 30 loyal Duvalierists were reported killed. While Duvalier's men were out chasing him, Barbot raided their lightly guarded barracks for arms...
...educational conditions" of the Seneca, is pathetic in its inadequacy and almost touching in its clumsy pomposity. The Seneca have been dealt a sickening injustice, which no amount of "improving" will undo. Still, one can hope that the Administration's decision to give the Seneca something resembling a fair shake in this single instance foreshadows a new, general policy of justice to the American Indian...
...adopt for all White trucks. But on many manufactured items, Canadian productivity and pricing simply cannot compete. "Several firms have been to see us about buying their hydraulic systems," says Cockshutt's George Vincent. "When we tell them what we're buying at in the States, they shake their heads and say they can't touch...
...blessed with a visage full of character to start with, and knows how to walk, gesture, shake his head, blink his eyes, and in general supplement his speech with telling effect. We are caught up by this colossus of a Lear, who has not yet learned that you can't eat your cake and have it too: he wants to give up the crown and at the same time hold...