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Carter's victory in the Senate is only half the battle. The same issue comes up this week in the House, where the top leaders favor the embargo. Speaker Tip O'Neill has characterized his position on the issue as "up to the knees in cement." An Administration aide cautions: "It's winnable. But we don't have the votes...
...attitudes as well. Of sport and its role in preparing both sexes for adult life, Harvard Sociologist David Riesman says: "The road to the board room leads through the locker room." He explains that American business has been "socialized" by sport. "Teamwork provides us with a kind of social cement: loyalty, brotherhood, persistence." Riesman is one of a group of scholars who believe women have had trouble rising to high managerial positions in part because they never learned the lessons taught so well by competitive sports...
Inside, the bomb shelter is a grey hulk of cement and steel. A hole in the ground serves as the toilet. There are about 30 of us crammed shoulder-to-shoulder in our sleeping bags and blankets on the cold, concrete floor. The kibbutz leaders intended to build bunk beds in this shelter, but since the outbreak of the war they have concentrated instead on building several additional new shelters. When we are all squeezed in, someone locks the two ten-inch thick steel doors that are supposed to protect us from the outside world...
Like a giant slice of orange rind, the scaffolding pulled away from the cement that had been laid the previous day, and hurtled to the ground. Said Katie Robinson, a worker's wife: "When the scaffold began to fall from one end, 12 or 15 men were trying to find a way off, and they walked back one way and then they turned around, and I thought they were going to try to jump. But then it all came down and the safety net wrapped around the men. I could see them all bundled up inside, and they fell...
Some hunched against the cement pillars, battling vicious stomach cramps and fighting the post-race nausea that caused many to return their food to the garage floor. Almost everyone hobbled on their heels or the sides of their feet, avoiding blistered toes and sore soles...