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...manly forms of action and both could, and usually did, cause trouble. Perhaps his father's early and humiliating death from syphilis made him fear that time would run out before his own destiny could be fulfilled. "How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it!" he told Violet Asquith. But if Churchill saw death as an obstacle to ambition, his follow-up remark to the Prime Minister's daughter suggested a way to meet the unavoidable. "We are all worms," he said morosely. "But I do believe that I am a glowworm...
...occasionally wanders into verbosity. But the pace of his storytelling never lags. As a doctor, Gray had access to both the rich and the poor, seeing more facets of the Saudi culture than a diplomat might. The narrative skips around in time as the author tries, sometimes confusingly, to cram all of three years of experience into 300 pages; he shares dinner with a Bedouin tribe, attends a royal wedding, and spends a great deal of time in conversations with a wide range of Saudi patients and acquaintances, from poor farmers to members of the plush Arab-American Oil Company...
...invested in postal-savings accounts earn tax-free interest. But whenever the authorities start investigating, they make sad discoveries. An audit of 50 people who had registered new luxury cars worth $40,000 or more, for instance, found that eleven reported having no income at all. Of 116 cram schools that help Tokyo children pass their exams, 109 were discovered to be concealing income. And last week the national Tax Administration Agency said it had audited 24 prosperous Tokyo dentists. Their average concealed income...
...extra ad is run along with the 50-sec. "news briefs" injected into the regular programming. In the past few months all three networks have started selling an extra 30 sec. of advertising, overall, in the three-hour prime-time stretch. The networks say that they will not cram in more. One reason: advertisers believe that the more commercials a viewer is subjected to, the less attention he pays. Says Louis Dorkin, senior vice president of the Dancer-Fitzgerald-Sample agency: "Stations can put on what they choose. But we can take our money and put it elsewhere." Viewers...
...special SAT prep courses. Acting on the evidence that students can study their way to higher scores, the National Association of Secondary School Principals announced this fall that it would publish SAT teaching materials in an effort to make the advantage available to all public school students. Could these cram courses be responsible for last week's announced improvement? Insists Hanford: "The rise in scores is due primarily to a refocusing of attention in the schools on academic subject matter." Indeed, a survey by the College Board shows that this year's SAT takers had enrolled in more...