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...this fact. Called Midas (from Missile Defense Alarm System), the satellite carried infrared detectors, which will pick up a missile's hot exhaust trail as it rises above the hazy, moisture-laden lower atmosphere. From a satellite on a high orbit, the heat can be detected several thousand miles away...
...have contributed heavily. If Hubert Humphrey can't raise money under these circumstances, with all the people who want to stop me in Wisconsin, like Symington and Johnson and the rest, he's just not competent." The Results: "If I win this thing by only a few thousand votes, I'm taking it as a victory. The popular vote tells the story. If a Bostonian can come out here and outdraw a Midwesterner in his own backyard, then to me that's a victory. I don't care what the delegate count says." Obviously, Jack...
...most eccentric, of France's New Realist writers is Claude Simon, author of the powerful and murky novel, The Wind (TIME, April 13). His current book is a little less powerful and somewhat more murky. Author Simon's moody, fitful sentences blow on for a thousand words or so before subsiding. He qualifies each thought, hedges each qualification, follows divergent ideas out of sight through cat's cradles of parentheses and dashes. He is as fond as Faulkner of the present participle. When it seems that he must stop, affix a period and begin a new sentence...
...were surrounded by crack regiments of paratroops and Foreign Legionnaires. But the paratroops in their red and green berets merely patrolled, did nothing to interfere with well-wishers who brought food, drink, munitions and weapons to the insurgents. From several hundred, the defenders of the barricades grew to several thousand, and by nightfall they were turning away volunteers, "unless you've got a damn good...
This lurid episode may be a cliché of a thousand Sunday supplement stories about the "white slave" trade, but it actually happened innumerable times in the vociferously moralistic setting of Victorian England. The nature, extent and eventual destruction of the white slave trade in England are described in detail in this modest monograph by a British novelist, Charles (The Neon Rainbow) Terrot. Between mild beige covers, in mild beige prose, he has told a story that makes the ghastliest passages of Dickens read like a parish calendar...