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...Take a Dip...
...Black sociologist at a convention at the Chase Park Plaza in St. Louis wanted to take dip in the hotel's swimming pool. But the lifeguard, for no apparent reason, refused to let him swim. The sociologist was enraged and marched to the front desk, insisting on seeing the hotel manager. When the manager did not appear, the sociologist kept standing in the lobby in his swimming trunks until a crowd had gathered. Someone called the St. Louis Human Rights Commission; somebody else notified the American Sociological Association (ASA). The local and national press appeared. Then ASA, which had about...
...half time in national politics or, perhaps more aptly, that moment in a relay when the baton hangs between outstretched hands about to meet. Major crises were unresolved: 52 Americans were still held hostage in Iran, and the U.S. economy threatened to dip once more into recession. But on the banks of the Potomac, all seemed unusually peaceful. Congress was in recess, and Jimmy Carter was getting ready to retire to Plains, Ga. President-elect Ronald Reagan had not yet arrived in the capital. Both the old President and the new President issued remarkably similar New Year's wishes...
Time is a precious commodity in the White House. If Presidents dip into trivia, there is no end to the process. We have been through L.B.J.'s worrying about how Air Force uniform trousers were tailored around the crotch and Jimmy Carter's arranging the tennis schedule for the White House court. Our Presidents could take a lesson from Egypt's Anwar Sadat, who perhaps has had more big ideas than any other statesman of this era. He purposely clears his schedule for long hours of rest, walking and pure solitude. The Egyptian President takes the facts...
...Consumers today are more conscious of the rising cost of money and all the talk of another dip in the economy. We don't see them going out on any limbs. They're remaining cautious." And Robert T. Parry, chief economist for California's Security Pacific National Bank, says that consumers are approaching the holiday season fearful of "possible unemployment, inflation and higher Social Security taxes coming soon after Christmas...