Word: cutthroat
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...cutthroat world of Communist politics, there are no second chances-with one exception. Last week Peking's official Hsinhua News Agency announced that the Central Committee of the Communist Party had voted to restore Teng Hsiao-p'ing, 73, to his former posts as Vice Premier, Vice Chairman of the party and Chief of Staff of the Army. At the same time, said the communique, the "Gang of Four" headed by Mao Tse-tung's widow, Chiang Ch'ing, had "once and for all" been expelled from the party and dismissed "from all posts inside...
...confidence that enabled him to conquer Manhattan's World Trade Center. Would-be birdmen can launch their hang gliders from Yosemite's Glacier Point for a 3,500-ft. descent to the park floor. Fishermen can cast their flies -and hopes-after the three-pound rainbow and cutthroat trout that make their homes in the mountain lakes and countless streams that crisscross Montana's million-acre Glacier National Park. River runners can launch themselves and their specially designed rubber boats down the foaming Colorado for a 277-mile run or trek into Texas' Big Bend National...
...Vance too nice for the job? Some think so. "He really may be too much of a gentleman," insists a Middle East expert in Washington. "He may not be able to survive the cutthroat atmosphere." But gentlemen can be tough, as well as patient; Vance may yet demonstrate that he has both these qualities, along with his undoubted intelligence...
...that Adams has been most outspoken against the Nixon and Ford Administrations' aborted proposal for what Adams has dubbed "the myth of deregulation." Adams calls instead for turning "our thoughts to the realities of regulation and the changes that are needed." Complete deregulation, he insists, would lead to cutthroat price competition and protect neither the airlines nor the passengers. Says Adams: "You don't need to burn the house down to roast...
...want?" The answer is a big serve. The spectacle of women trying to prove that anatomy is not destiny and ?temporarily, at least, turning into cavepersons on the mixed-doubles courts as a result?may be either good news or bad in the long run. One who thinks cutthroat competition for women is bad is Anthropologist Margaret Mead. She admits that if women turn their backs on the home and childbearing, they may need sport to give them confidence in their bodies, as men have done since the beginnings of society. But she thinks Americans are terrible sports...