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...miles per hour, or even 45 or 40 among the more patriotic. Energy--that substance that Einstein told us is so abundant that a tiny bit of matter gets multiplied by the speed of light squared in producing it--is accepted as being scarce. Crisis is the new byword, and sacrifice the new spirit...
...could have run four more miles," puffed Dixiecrat Rebpublican Strom Thurmond, 70, as he finished well back in the pack celebrating National Jogging Day with a two-mile race around the Ellipse in Washington. Old Strom's belief in physical fitness is a Senate byword predating even his 1970 marriage to his second wife Nancy, 26. Rising at 5:30 a.m., the South Carolina Senator jogs about three miles, then does fifteen minutes of calisthenics and follows up during the day with a turn or two with the barbells. Sometimes his colleagues are directly affected by his vigor: Thurmond...
Last week the company got a windfall when the French Ministry of Education ruled that the country's 4,000,000 children in elementary schools may use ballpoints instead of the traditional ink pens. It was about time. Bic has become a byword in the schools, offices and households of 96 countries. Nearly a billion and a half Bics are rolled out of 20 plants round the world every year according to company officials; they account for one-third of the world's ballpoint total, and production has been rising 10% annually. Baron Bich has done for ballpoints...
Czechoslovakia is no longer regarded as a danger. The border with China is relatively dormant. Viet Nam, despite the mining of Haiphong, is being downplayed by the Soviet leadership. The byword is realism; the new necessity is to improve conditions at home. One hears it privately from friends and colleagues: the Soviet Union is reordering its priorities. Nuclear sufficiency and a SALT agreement mean a reallocation of resources and more spending on consumer goods. "We are about to turn a corner," a woman official told me. "The summit could mean changes at home as well as in our relations with...
...traditional byword of American bluestockingism is "banned in Boston." And when it comes to obscenity Elijah Adlow, chief justice of the Boston Municipal Court, is something of a hard-nose. Yet last week he lodged a rather curious protest against lewdness: he dismissed the case against a stripper who got carried away...