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...through turbulent skies, to Dar es Salaam, in Tanzania, then to South Africa, then Rhodesia, then London, then Moscow. The twelve-day odyssey will add some 20,000 miles to the 160,000 that the Secretary has logged since he became the nation's chief diplomat 15 months ago???quite a bit of traveling (to 28 countries) for a man who once vowed to stay close to his office. But the problems that the U.S. now confronts in its relations with Africa, and with the Soviet Union, demand every bit of skill, intelligence, dedication and finesse that Cy Vance...
...fought Spinks, Muhammad Ali's career, in all of its various styles, was suddenly telescoped. He talked and taunted in the early rounds, danced and threw flurries of punches just as he had years ago???though he paused on the ropes and covered up to rest. He was casually giving rounds away to Spinks, confident the pace would wear him down...
...population of only 6.8 million?little more than half of that of the other far corner of the country. Americans who live in cities or suburbs can look at large parts of the Northwest and glean a true idea of what the nation was like 50 or 100 years ago???a region where small-town accessibility and friendliness come naturally, where people seem to care more about who they are than what they have...
Anthropologists now believe that man's family tree (see chart) goes back to a primate called Dryopithecus, a true ape that appeared some 20 million years ago. Much later?by 14 million years ago???the Dryopithecus line had split into three branches...
Last week some loose ends were being tied up: H.R. Haldeman and John Mitchell became the last of the indicted Watergaters to go to prison. After a 320-day trial, the Black Panthers lost their civil suit against the Chicago police who raided their quarters several ages ago???it was 1969?and killed Mark Clark and Fred Hampton. As Stanford Sociologist Seymour Martin Lipset observes, "This is the first time in ten years that nothing disastrous is occurring." Americans may not believe that they are embarked on a new age, but at least they are savoring a historical pause...