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...problem -stands the Nobel Peace prizewinner, usually silent, often indecisive. His personality has always been elusive, and associates say that it is becoming more so. He wants to be liked, and so he avoids personal confrontation.He remains aloof from battles or postpones dealing with them until they balloon out of all proportion to their basic importance. To those around him, he increasingly gives the impression of a man who is tired and bored, as if the frustrations of domestic politics are too much to bear after the heady sweep of his foreign policy successes...
...worker's pay has been running behind prices. The energy crisis has heightened union discontent, kicking prices even higher, and in some cases costing jobs. Thus rank-and-file members are putting the heat on their leaders to go after much fatter settlements, even though that would further balloon prices...
...never weird or funny enough, never frightening or suspenseful. It does not seem especially outlandish either, which is another mistake. Even kinkiness is academic here. Glenda Jackson seems impatient, while Oliver Reed goes about with his cheeks puffed out, as if taking a sobriety test with an imaginary balloon...
...what may seem to some to be a dangerously suggestive circulation-promotion gimmick, Forbes magazine President Malcolm Forbes, 54, has taken to the skies in a hot-air balloon. Determined to become the first person to cross the U.S. in a hot-air craft, Forbes took off from Coos Bay, Ore., on Oct. 4. Last week he set down on a farm near Esbon, Kans., the geographical center of the country, which he figures to be about 20 ballooning days from the New Jersey coast. Aeronaut Forbes is not drifting East on a wing and a prayer, however. His entourage...
...used for more than one purpose or are easily stacked and stowed. Sleeping bags are brightly adorned and embroidered to serve as wall hangings between camping trips. Triangular wool pieces can be spread out as floor covering or piled up as low seats. A lamp inflates like a balloon. A combination writing table and bulletin board can be folded down to a rectangle only three inches thick. There are dining-room sets that collapse into practically nothing, a mini-kitchen that is housed inside a unit the size of a rolling bar and even an "environmental bower," a kind...