Word: avoiding
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Premier Aldo Moro, 47, is the antithesis of the voluble, emotional Italian. A reserved onetime law professor, he detests the acid name calling of Italian politics, is so shy that he often travels by car to avoid the necessary social amenities on planes and trains. Moro's political genius is for compromise, sometimes achieved by pure tenacity. He once reduced a colleague to near collapse by arguing reasonably for four uninterrupted hours. So conscientiously capable is Moro of seeing all sides of every question that friends and foes alike are convinced that he agrees only with them...
...sweeping plan for expansion of the chemical industry to raise fertilizer production from 20 million tons this year to 108 million tons by 1970. Fertilizer has become a kind of ritual incantation; Nikita is obviously convinced that only its vastly increased use can raise production enough to avoid drastic food cuts or permanent dependence on expensive foreign farm products, such as the 11 million tons of wheat the Soviets are buying from the West. Asks a current Moscow joke: "What was Stalin's last mistake?" Answer: "He stockpiled enough grain for only ten years...
...prudent practice of flying under separate names - it looks better in case of an accident or some other untoward breach of security (though airlines have painfully learned never, never to drop an executive's wife a friendly follow-up note asking how she enjoyed her trip). Others avoid any possibility of embarrassment by taking separate planes. For expense-accountsmen it is, of course, cheaper to take the same plane. "It's almost becoming standard practice," explains a U.S. travel agent in Paris, "for American businessmen to reserve two tourist-class seats and charge their companies for one first...
...vitality. There is no need, therefore, for section men to prove their manhood by attacking all the "Cliffies" in their sections, as one member of the Committee seems to suggest that they should. (The only alternative interpretation of his remarks is that a high income is required to avoid celibacy at Harvard and recent official utterances suggest that an undergraduate's allowance is adequate to finance promiscuity here...
...magic age of 26, beyond which practically no one is drafted. Thousands of students are, in fact, populating our graduate institutions with little motivation other than of escaping the government's summons. And now marriage has been added to the list of plots by which the unwilling can avoid the discomfort of serving in the military...