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...does not miss the opportunity to continue his attack on Women's Liberation. Like a celebrity chaser, he goes to the White House to interview Henry Kissinger, who easily wraps Mailer round his finger. But mostly Mailer does what Mailer does best: tossing out metaphors, similes and off-cuff vignettes -usually making them stick...
...savings. The savings rate dropped from a peak of 8.6% of personal income in the second quarter of 1971 to just over 6% in the third quarter this year, though bankers now sense that it is starting to rise again. An unprecedented amount of consumer buying is on the cuff. Consumer credit went up more than $1 billion in each of the last six months tabulated; the rise in August, the latest month reported, tied May's record $1.4 billion. The Bank of America reports its BankAmericard volume running an extra-high 35% ahead of a year...
...himself evokes none of the adulation that characterized, say, the John and Robert Kennedy campaigns, or even the Eugene McCarthy campaign. Even among his own faithful, he comes across as a cool and somewhat distant figure, perhaps a touch pedestrian. No waves of shrieking teen-agers engulf him; his cuff links are always in place when he emerges from a crowd...
Boeing's approach was simple and polite. Says Grueter, a German-born businessman who represented U.S. and European interests in the Orient for 15 years before joining the aircraft firm: "You never sell to the Chinese-they buy from you." Aircraft salesmen usually pass around cuff links, miniature aircraft-panel clocks and other freebies to prospective customers, but Miller observed the Chinese emphasis on strict propriety by taking along as gifts only a stack of cardboard time-distance indicators that show flight times between various cities. These gradually disappeared from the table during the team's twice-daily...
Arab audiences revel in mellifluous oratory. Last week Egyptian President Anwar Sadat rewarded the Arab Socialist Union Congress with a first-class example of it. Mopping his brow often in a sultry hall, modulating his voice from whisper to thespian holler, Sadat delivered a largely off-the-cuff speech that was twice as long as any address delivered by his predecessor, Gamal Abdel Nasser, and every bit as dramatic. Excerpts...