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Fortunately McGrath has left a substantial heritage and qualified staff behind him. The question is how far they'll be allowed to go, now that a political specter has been resurrected in the Department of Correction by Volpe...
...each year. De Gaulle thereby served notice that he intended not only to cause mischief for the American economic colossus, but to test the money system in its global entirety. The move was important not so much for its size as for the furor it caused and the specter it roused of what would happen if other dollar holders decided to imitate France...
...Specter. It was a chilling display, and its significance reached far beyond the Congo. "Even such a torrent of abuse of my country is of no consequence compared to the specter of racial antagonism and conflict raised in this chamber," said Stevenson. "I personally need no credentials as a spokesman for racial equality. I say that racial hatred, racial strife, has cursed the world for too long. I make no defense of the sins of the white race. But the antidote for white racism is not black racism...
...speculate wryly that he may be the next victim. And even if he is filled with escapist envy for the gypsy's irresponsible lot, his conscience, drummed by a thousand pleas, dampens his delight. In the climate of today's opinion, play-gypsies-play translates into the specter of migrant urban nonworkers, who are just about as amusing as migrant agricultural workers, and everyone knows how funny they...
When Red China crashed the nuclear club, its A-bomb test blast echoed through all the world's capitals. And it roused once again the specter of a dead and devastated world. Scientists and laymen alike have long feared that the aftermath of a nuclear attack would be a desolation of blasted, baked and radioactive wasteland. What life survived the initial holocaust, it was agreed, would surely succumb to the longer-lasting hazards of atomic radiation. So far, the best proving grounds for such theories are Bikini and Eniwetok, the two Pacific atolls that were clobbered by some...