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NATO-in-Crisis (the calmer variant: NATO-in-Disarray) has for long years been a staple of journalism and think-tank colloquia. The crisis story was always halfway true, because of the fundamental divergences and imbalances within the alliance, but now the story is also serious, because the desire to overcome the divergences has been significantly weakened...
...help themselves-teen-age girls, for example, or the members of the National Rifle Association (who all write the same letter), or the people with urgent messages for public figures, which are usually written in green ink on triangular Kleenex. These are the extreme compulsives. But there are many calmer citizens, as well, who cannot bear to leave the stationery stationary, and thus get themselves into deep trouble. President Reagan's son Mike was among these recently when he wrote a letter soliciting military contracts, and dropped his father's name. The President advised...
...finds that red is best, at least for the thousands of Leghorn hens he has personally fitted. Red lenses somehow not only diminish cannibalism but also reduce the quantity of food needed to produce a dozen eggs. "With contact lenses the chickens have less stress," he says. "They are calmer and easier to handle...
...whole thing just may be viewed some day by calmer minds as the most distorted and peculiar political event yet invented in a system that had already run off the tracks. One good fellow compared the episode to an enlarged replay of Jimmy Carter and the killer rabbit-the rabbit being 6-ft., 1-in. Reagan with bushy hair and pink cheeks. All night long Carter swatted away at the intruder with his nuclear paddle and kept Reagan from climbing in the canoe and taking a bite...
Petroleum markets remained calmer than in 1979 largely because the world's oil-importing nations have bulging inventories. Japan has a 111-day supply, some of it stored in tankers swinging at anchor in Japanese ports. Observes one top oil industry executive in New York City caustically: "The Japanese would like to panic, but they have no place to put any more...