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...enormous achievements of science in posting the universe that man inhabits, odd things keep slipping past the sentries. The tap on the shoulder may be fleeting, the brush across the cheek gone sooner than it is felt, but the momentary effect is unmistakable: an unwilling suspension of belief in the rational. An old friend suddenly remembered, and as suddenly the telephone rings and the friend is on the line. A vivid dream that becomes the morning reality. The sense of bumping into one's self around a corner of time, of having done and said just this, in this place...
Sanders told reporters after the game that 6 ft. 5 in. junior forward Larry Lewis, who scored 16 points for the Penn team "hurt us the most." Although the Crimson outrebounded the larger Quakers, 34-27, Sanders felt Lewis's scoring on lay-ups and tap-ins underneath was particularly damaging to Harvard...
...part. A young Lorelei seems naive, but a seasoned one is merely brazen. Instead of throwing herself into the proceedings, Carol seems to expend her energy with utmost calculation. Apart from a couple of production numbers, she remains almost stationary and is offstage altogether for the strenuous tap-dance sequences. Even her vocal tricks - going from bass through squeak in breathtaking spoken roulades - now sound like a ventriloquist...
...fact, the softspoken, impeccably tailored Murdoch is now far more interesting than the Star itself. He confidently expects to tap a huge audience that others are not reaching. He thinks that most major publications here are aimed "at the rich and the intellectual." "Daily newspapers are limited and local," he says, "and national magazines have to depend on advertising dollars and the opinions of Madison Avenue." He wants the Star to lean almost solely on circulation revenue provided by readers willing to pay a quarter at newsstands or supermarkets...
...this was strictly legitimate; swiping secret documents was not. Because somebody was getting such documents out of the NSC, however, Kissinger requested and then Attorney General John Mitchell ordered that the FBI tap the telephones of Radford and four associates for a six-month period. Radford, a convert to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, admits knowing Anderson-they worshiped at the same Mormon church in Washington-but he denies that he was the source of the leak...