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After interviewing 384 Greater Boston housewives, they concluded that women who vote Democratic are "tender-minded" while Republican women are "tough-minded." The female Democrats "feel a social warmth in the people around them, and they feel much the same warmth in their own political party." The Republican women "appear to have the more self-oriented approach . . . They seem to have greater self-confidence and awareness of their own capacity." To them, the candidate's competence is the most important consideration; for Democrats, "the intellectual aspects" are most important-"thinking rather than doing, intention rather than action...
...that was about all the U.S. felt able to do last week about a gratuitous insult that rose out of a scrap among young Syrian army leftists, who currently wield power but do not have responsibility in Syria. They appear so unanimously bent on turning their country into the Middle East's first Soviet satellite that to hang a big lie on the U.S. is to score a point or two in the infighting. The army intelligence crowd, led by the mysterious left-winger, Colonel Abdel Hamid Serraj, 31, put out the plot story in an apparent effort...
...happy now? On the contrary. My father was different from me and was a near tyrant. He never attended to domestic affairs, but simply yelled at his wife when he wanted something. When he was displeased, he frequently beat his wife. Still, she did not appear to be unhappy. Father was quite happy, of course...
...People want to know whether they are eating themselves into premature heart disease!" said the report. "On the one hand, some scientists have taken uncompromising stands based on evidence that does not stand up under critical examination; on the other, certain industrial groups appear to believe they can suppress the problem by advertising campaigns" (see BUSINESS...
...nitpicker is "an incompetent supervisor who generally knows little or nothing about what he is reviewing, but feels that, in order to appear deserving of his position, he ought to criticize something." Having stated this definition. Author Leonard Drohan sets out to harpoon the nit of wit among civil servants and middleweight army brass at a Government bureau, a task about as difficult as shooting a whale in a swimming pool. But Drohan, who has worked in the U.S. civil service off and on since 1942, gets tangled in his unreeling novel and goes down with his quips. Spoofing government...