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...joined by pilots of LAN-Chile, the national airline. Although many workers were still out, there were signs that the strike-which one leader admitted was designed "to turn the clock back to Sept. 4, 1970," the date of Allende's election-had begun to run out of steam. Faced with mounting economic losses, many shopkeepers have unshuttered their stores. Taxis and buses are running again. The government commandeered 1,500 trucks from striking truck operators and pro-government workers have managed to keep food supplies flowing at a tolerable 40% of the normal rate...
Seth Low made the official greeting for the City of Brooklyn, the Marines presented arms, a signal flag was dropped nearby and instantly there was a crash of a gun from the Tennessee. Then the whole fleet commenced firing. Steam whistles on every tug, steamboat, ferry, every factory along the river, began to scream. More cannon boomed. Bells rang, people were cheering wildly on every side. The band played "Hail to the Chief" maybe six or seven more times and, at the sight of Arthur 'the great multitude in the station arose and gave vent to the wildest enthusiasm...
...Tonis said that the water supply would not he a problem, because most buildings connect by steam tunnel to the Indoor Athletic Building, where the swimming pool can be tapped as a source of potable water...
...atoms enough to allow them to hit and split the nuclei of other U-235 atoms. (Without a moderator, the neutrons escape from the uranium fuel too fast to sustain the reaction.) When the heat from this process became too intense, scientists believe, the water turned to steam, the neutrons speeded up, and the chain reaction halted until the uranium cooled sufficiently for the steam to condense back to water. Thus, Perrin believes, "the fossil pile at Oklo must have functioned intermittently, pulsating as it were...
...FRENCH NEW WAVE lost its steam in the mid-sixties, when the experiments of the early part of the decade began to turn into repetition on the one hand and polemic on the other. Chabrol churned out Chabrols and Truffaut, Truffauts. Daniel Cohn-Bendit gave Godard politics. No one gave Resnais money. This same vacuum which so facilitated the ascension of Eric Rohmer seems likely to do similarly for Alain Tanner. But like Rohmer. Tanner at his moment of success is no fresh young talent. He is a middle-aged Swiss with a varied career behind him that includes apprenticeship...