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Maybe Alexander Korda was careless about ordering his affairs because he had witnessed so many of the century's upheavals. Maybe it was the strong under current of melancholy in his temperament that caused him to regard all permanencies as delusions. Whatever. Michael Korda 's title is apt, and he has fashioned from his uncle's life, and from his own struggle not to become a pale copy of him, a book that is rather like one of his uncle's historical films-warm, well structured, humorous, a little larger and more roman tic than life...
...radical chic rhetoric of affluent suburbia," he is forgetting the thousands of Viet Nam vets who joined those ranks upon their return home. As to his statement that we could not end the war "as if we were switching a television channel," the protest movement's apt response was that we saw no sense in continuing an unfounded horror show switched on by others...
King, the only black candidate, cut into White's traditional minority and liberal support, carrying the black wards that have traditionally gone to the mayor and picking up votes in White's home turf, the liberal Back Bay. In November, these votes are apt to return to White's camp...
Which is the smartest race on earth? Many nominate the Jews, whose intellectual achievements are out of proportion to their small numbers. C.P. Snow thinks the Japanese may be even brighter. Such musings are best muttered at late night bull sessions. In public, ranking races by intelligence is apt to smack of simple racism...
...causes. In large part, the shortage is a side effect of the women's movement and equal opportunity programs. Now that they are encouraged to start out in management training programs or go on to study law, medicine or business management, young women graduates are less apt to want to move from campus to a secretarial pool. Says Sheila Rather, an executive with the Manhattan office of Brook Street Bureau of May fair Ltd., a personnel agency: "Business has never accepted the fact that a secretary also wants a career path." At the same time, efforts to attract...