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...scheme, the official explained, would have to await the anticipated re-election of French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, in May, but he suggested that the planning begin. The meeting broke up with no decision being made. Still, U.S. officials agreed to keep the talks going. The venture came to an abrupt halt when Giscard was unexpectedly defeated at the polls by Socialist Francois Mitterrand...
...Reich (all of whose students, the Times exclaims, call him "Charley"), who reports in his book, The Greening of America (currently churning off the Random House presses at a rate of 15,000 a week), that the machinery of Corporate America is destroying itself and that we should all await with him the inevitable emergence--like grass through the cracks in the sidewalk--of a new Consciousness of love, blue jeans and rock music, a Consciousness III. Says the Times: "Youth culture has gotten its very own Norman Vincent Peale." They were not referring to William Sloan Coffin, Yale...
...Arkansas Democrat David Pryor, left the second-floor study, Reagan suddenly found himself with nothing left to do to influence the vote. He spent the last three hours reading and chatting with Nancy and aides. He went downstairs to the Oval Office a few minutes before 5 p.m. to await the tally...
Like students here, the cadets eagerly await each year's season within a season, when their version of Yalies--the midshipmen of Navy--sail in for the November finale. Unlike most in Cambridge, the men and women of West Point rely heavily on the regular rhythm of weekend confrontation merely to make it through the other six days. "It can get pretty gray here in the fall, pretty gloomy," says sophomore Daryl Smith, voicing a common sentiment...
...theme of human work. He had intended to issue the 24,000-word document, titled Laborem Exercens (On Working), last spring in connection with the 90th anniversary of Pope Leo Kill's encyclical Rerum Novarum, the first Catholic document devoted to social questions. Its release, however, had to await his recovery from the bullet wounds he suffered last May. "It is only after my stay in hospital," he explains at the end of the document, "that I have been able to revise it definitively...