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...zameret (elite), the mellifluous-voiced diplomat has begun to soften his heavily starched image. He recently allowed himself to be photographed with his attractive blonde wife Suzy at the Suez Canal, wearing an almost shockingly informal tieless dark shirt. A dove in the past, he has begun to adopt a more hawkish-and thus more popular -stance on some issues. To match his new style, he has recruited a small new staff of politically savvy assistants. Sapir, meanwhile, has passed the word around that if he decides not to run next year, Eban would make a fine candidate...
...original version of the game, developed by Harold A. Thomas, McKay Professor of Civil and Sanitary Engineering, stresses awareness of the cultural aspects of population control. The players adopt the values concerning reproduction of men and women in underdeveloped countries, with high infant mortality rates and little access to contraceptives...
...years ago he asked Congress to establish a special commission to chart a response to the challenge. Last week the Commission on Population Growth and the American Future gave its answer: growth must slow down. "We will not like some of the solutions we will have to adopt," it said, "but unless we can resolve the question of population growth, it not only will aggravate our current problems but may eventually dwarf them...
Pakistan's internal troubles, however, are far from settled. One sticky but potentially divisive issue is the kind of constitution that the Assembly decides to adopt. Bhutto is believed to favor a strong presidential system, with himself as the powerful chief executive. Wali and other opposition leaders want a parliamentary system that will give them a larger voice. But for the moment, Bhutto's prudent retreat on martial law is an encouraging sign for Pakistan's future...
...summer of 1925. "An Article of Faith", written by the new eighty-six year-old priest is a friendly, if somewhat vague reminiscence about the clearly unusual boy that Agee must have been. It is written in the same expansive, liturgical style that Agee was himself to adopt. Out of Father Flye's anonymous compassion, one reads the cosmic compassion that marks Agee's earlier prose, moving into the more articulate, and particular compassion of his later work, A Death in the Family. The father of many spiritual children, Father Flye fostered in Agee his sense of being a child...