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...Carter has begun to score some caucus and primary victories, his opponents' amusement has turned to concern and then to hostility. To make up for lost time, they are turning more heat on him. So along with all the love from his ardent supporters, there is a wave of hate from some of his opponents. An aide to Morris Udall vows never to support Carter; he would rather vote for Ford. "Carter's so damn slick," he says. "What monopoly does he have on goodness? To me, he's dangerous." Says Alan Baron, George McGovern's press secretary: "By saying...
After the war, the by now tremendously popular "fighting prince" transformed himself into an immensely useful "salesman prince." He joined the boards of several companies, including KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, Hoogovens Steel and Fokker Aircraft, and began a new career as globetrotting good-will ambassador and ardent promoter of Dutch exports. Former Brazilian President Juscelino Kubitschek called him "the best commercial traveler I've ever met-and in Brazil we meet them...
...accept the reality of cyclical moods and deal with them, if necessary, through exercise or hormone treatment. Feminists are now exchanging home remedies all the way from lower back massage and raspberry leaf tea to taking calcium ("nature's tranquilizer," said Nutritionist Adelle Davis) before their periods. Some ardent feminists are even urging women friends to examine, smell and taste their own menstrual blood as a way of overcoming traditional attitudes toward menstruation. Others are promoting menstrual extraction-a risky suction procedure-to avoid days of bleeding...
Robeson's longstanding and ardent support of the Soviet Union, even during the outrages of the Stalinist period, show a tragic blindness to the true nature of the Soviet system, and perhaps a real lack of political sophistication. But to use this element in his career to condemn either Robeson the man, or Robeson the symbol, is misleading and wrong. Robeson the man was defined by boundless compassion: for war refugees, for his oppressed black brothers, and in a real sense, for all who suffered in an uncaring world. And Robeson the symbol represented, not the Communist Party...
...caution extends beyond loan policy. Most bank managers have ceased, at least temporarily, their ardent pursuit of the Great God Growth. Expansion in the U.S. and abroad and diversification into other businesses have drastically slowed at almost all banks. As far back as a year ago, A.W. Clausen, head of Bank of America, warned his fellow bankers: "Recent rates of growth can be sustained only at a possible risk of eroding future strength and stability." Now J. Richard Fredericks, a bank analyst in San Francisco, puts it more pithily: "Gogo banking...