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...belligerent harangue, like Sadat's calmer interviews with U.S. Newsmen James Reston and Walter Cronkite, was designed to show the world-and the Jarring negotiators-that Egypt is not war weary enough to beg for peace and negotiate away territory. The scene in Tanta was a far cry from Sadat's first executive address before the National Assembly last October, when he was so unsure of himself that he drew only a polite patter of handclaps. Sadat became the butt of jokes. Now the jokes are subsiding. "No doubt about it," says a U.S. State Department official, "Sadat...
...President two years ago this week. That Nixon, you may recall, was the "Bring Us Together" man, the low-profile President who went about his business as quietly as possible, if also as deviously as possible. A President as detestable in his way as LBJ was in his-yet calmer, dull...
...insurance, home owners will probably have to accept $250-deductible clauses if fire and theft rates are to be kept anywhere within reason. There will be no real relief, though, so long as the nation continues to set records for crashing, stealing and burning. Until the U.S. becomes a calmer, safer place, the policyholder will have to pay more and more for less and less protection...
Cynicism and disillusionment with academic life go far beyond politics. Last year cheating reached epidemic proportions. Weary of the poisonous atmosphere, many students have moved into apartments or to outlying farm areas. There they have set up communes and cooperatives to experiment with a more constructive and calmer lifestyle...
...because the industry stands to lose so much, Fairchild could not emerge from a defeat of the midi without suffering heavy losses himself. His response to that peril is about as close as Seventh Avenue ever comes to a beau geste: "I suppose we could have taken a much calmer approach to the Longuette, but that isn't our style. We approach everything like a tiger...