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Relations & Romance. As in the old days, the housewife is bombarded with programs whose aim is to exploit at least five of the seven deadly sins. Avarice and gluttony are the main components of such game shows as Let's Make a Deal, where husbands and wives bicker as they try to guess the prices of lawn sprinklers and diet bread, and Supermarket Sweep, where grocery shelves are swept clean by tense men with shopping carts racing against a clock. Envy, too, is an important ingredient of the game-show recipe. The housewife who abandons diaper and vacuum cleaner...
...Asian nations from Iran to Western Samoa are banding together for their own economic development -largely at the behest of the United Na tions Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East. "The river is a psy chological rallying point," says U Nyun, ECAFE executive secretary. "Countries that normally bicker can work together. The Mekong project holds the seeds -perhaps the only really promising seeds -for abiding peace in Southeast Asia...
Early in 1965 almost every significant political leader in Massachusetts agreed that the state needed more than $200 million in additional annual revenues. Now, twelve months later, the financial plight of the Commonwealth is even more pressing; yet these same leaders continue to bicker among themselves, unable to agree on an equitable tax plan to raise the vitally needed funds...
...first place, it was neither tactful nor constructive for Mr. Johnson, who maintained a studied aloofness throughout the strike, to bicker the terms now, when it is much too late to affect the results...
...Private Bickering. If Bourguiba's memo was a devastating blast at Nasser, he was not the only critic. At the opening meeting of the Arab League, the conference host himself, Morocco's King Hassan II, repeated Bourguiba's themes but in milder terms. As conference chairman, Nasser weathered the storm with considerable aplomb, pointing out that the conferees would get nowhere if they limited themselves to diatribes. Then he cleared the hall of all but the twelve heads of state so that the Arab leaders could bicker on in privacy...