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...Arab and Muslim states plus the communist countries of Cuba, North Korea and Vietnam. An Arab spokesman argued that repeal would only "whet the appetite of Israeli extremists' creeping annexation," and Saudi Arabia's U.N. Ambassador, Samir Shihabi, boycotted the session. Biggest winner: the U.N., freed of an albatross...
Defenders of the project predict there will be solid scientific findings and benefits, but even if there are not, so what? Inventor Paul MacCready, who has won both public praise and scientific acclaim for designing the human-powered flying machines known as the Gossamer Condor and Gossamer Albatross, contends that the true measure of a project's value is not whether it produces hard data but whether it provokes the human mind. "Who can say Lindbergh's flight was scientifically important?" he asks. "There was no new land discovered, and if you asked at the time, people might have said...
From her perspective, the $93,000-a-year post seemed more albatross than opportunity. "The feeling was, whoever took the job was doomed to failure," Watson recalls. "Police morale was as low as any of us had ever seen it, and community tensions were higher than any of us could remember." With two young children at home (Susan, 9, and Mark, 5), Watson was painfully aware of what the promotion would mean to her family. "The trade-offs were obvious," says her husband, who is nicknamed "Chase" within the family. Watson is a religious Catholic, and her brother John Herrmann...
...conscience" of CBS, who was crushed when Paley cast him aside rather than accept him as successor. It was a pattern that would be repeated with one heir apparent after another. By the end of his reign, Smith says bluntly, Paley, well into his 80s, "had become an albatross for the network...
Each summer, this list was my faithful companion--or rather my albatross--never leaving my side. I even conscientiously taped it to the inside lid of my trunk and brought it with me to camp along with my baseball glove and tennis racket. Every day when I opened my trunk in a vain attempt to find a clean T-shirt and shorts, I found that list staring me in the face, daring me to read the required seven books and fill in each of those seven blanks on the page...