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Nearly all of Europe's soldiers earn considerably less than the volunteering American G.I.'s $450 a month basic pay; the equivalents of buck privates make $35 a month in Italy, $65 in France and $110 in West Germany...
...ineptness of much of Carter's foreign policy continues to stupefy the world. The bungles are endless--from the buck-passing and double-dealing following the vote in the U.N. Security Council on Israel's West Bank settlements to the recent diplomatic faux pas of the president's absence at Yugoslav leader Josip Tito's funeral. One reason for the perpetual inconsistency of Carter's diplomacy, of course, is his stage-fright: every move on the international stage is selected to please the audience of American voters, not to further a coherent foreign policy. It is precisely Carter's failure...
That he likes bad characters, bad plots, and bad endings? It doesn't seem fair to criticize Erich Segal '58 for making a buck the easiest way he knows how. After all, he would probably be the first to admit the slick vapidness of his "novels." Because, of course, they are not novels...
...academic assault on bad writing is strongest, and most varied, in the nation's colleges. "The buck is finally stopping with us," says William N. Free, a vice president at the University of Toledo. This semester, with 43 other top-level college administrators, Free attended a two-day workshop sponsored by the University of Iowa's Institute on Writing...
Opening day, Toronto, April 1977: About 45,000 fans, formerly hockey devotees cram Exhibition Stadium by the shores of Lake Ontario to witness the Blue Jays' home debut. Souvenir ticket stubs go for a buck, cokes for 95 cents. One minor problem delays the game: the field is blanketed in snow...