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Play doctors are a special breed. They must adapt their craft to another's style...
Domestic Policy Adviser Stuart Eizenstat, he says, is typical of the Administration mold: "A skilled version of an unimaginative breed." Georgians Hamilton Jordan and Jody Powell, says Fallows, cultivate the laid-back style of "cool guys getting the job done without trying too hard or taking it all too seriously." One of the few to win a favorable notice is National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, "high-strung and vain," but also "the one among Carter's senior associates who tried every day to test the limits of his job and come up with new ideas...
Kraft, who coined the term Middle America in 1968, has in recent years moved more to the middle himself. Once tagged a liberal, he now considers himself an "antipopulist," and believes that egalitarianism can breed mediocrity...
...sign of the zodiac, not to worry. Seer Jeane Dixon, famous and wealthy from casting people, has now gone to the dogs. "Dogs, after all," insists Dixon in her new book, Horoscopes for Dogs, "live under the same stars that we do." Take her Teddy, a mutt of indiscriminate breed. Dixon obviously doesn't know his birthday or his sign. But since Teddy loves to chase rabbits during walks through the woods, "he just...
Some 50% of all domestic production, which now stands at 8.7 million bbl. per day, comes from wells dug by the industry's 10,000 independent wildcatters. The breed's home base is the boom city of Houston, and the risks and rewards of the profession are reflected in a remark by one of its members, Chester Benge: "The oil business is one of the few businesses in the world where you can go to bed poor and wake up rich...