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...someone finally put athletics in their place. A music major puts in as much practice time as the average athlete; yet one does not hear of musicians receiving free credits to avoid flunking out of school. Sports are fun, but when they become more than that, something is amiss...
...Lordstown, Ohio, line. But the slower speeds allow workers more time for the job at hand, and as a result the parts fit snugly and the screws are tight. Each Toyota worker is also a kind of one-man inspection unit. If he sees something amiss, he can pull a red cord that stops the whole assembly line. Until recently, any U.S. worker who halted the assembly line was courting dismissal...
Earlier in the week, U.S. officials made known their concern over Italy's sale to Iraq of equipment that might be used in the development of an atomic bomb. Again, something seemed amiss. It turned out that the U.S. had been aware of the sale since 1978, and that the item, a lead-shielded cubicle known as a "hot cell," is standard equipment in most nuclear laboratories. Officials in Rome speculated that word about American displeasure with the deal had been leaked at this time because Italian support for the tough U.S. position on the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan...
...vegetarians would take amiss John Leo's remark about their preverbal innocence. It might remind a few people of another remark. Something about a little child leading...
...greet Syrian President Hafez Assad when he arrived in Moscow last week for a three-day state visit. Nor did the Soviet President and Party Chief show up for a Kremlin dinner in Assad's honor. Both absences were grave breaches of protocol. Since nothing is seriously amiss with Syrian-Soviet relations, Brezhnev's non-appearances quickly led to speculation that he was seriously...