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...Emperors step aside for men they considered worthier than themselves, this Emperor strove to be come a model of excellence. "All the Ancients used to say that the Emperor should concern himself with general principles, but need not deal with the smaller details," he wrote. K'ang-hsi dis agreed: "Failure to attend to details will end up endangering your greater vir tues." It is still excellent advice, for pipe fitters as well as Presidents with an imperial bent...
...officials be cause he also wants to overthrow such conservative Arab leaders as President Sadat's friend and ally, Saudi Arabian King Faisal. Arafat could easily win a vote on the mini-Palestine issue. Meet ings droned on, however, as he sought to shape a consensus without losing dis senters. "Wishes are one thing," Egyptian Editor Salah Gawdah observed last week, "but what is feasible is another...
McPhee notes that one of these Government pamphlets, detailing problems that arose during the making of the first A-bombs, carries a thoughtful dis claimer: "Neither the United States, nor the [Atomic Energy] Commission . . . assumes any liabilities with respect to the use of, or for damages resulting from the use of, any information, ap paratus, method, or process disclosed in this report...
When Financier Robert Vesco fled the U.S. to avoid his mounting legal problems, he took along a prized possession: a Boeing 707 jetliner lavishly fitted out with a dis cotheque, a sauna for five and sleeping quarters for twelve. Vesco may have thought his expensive toy was safe, but one of his more determined creditors reckoned otherwise. In what may turn out to be one of the most bizarre asset-recovery schemes on record, Alwyn Eisenhauer, Vesco's former pilot, settled a beef against his old boss simply by talking his way aboard the plane, then flying it home...
...clear: It would fight until Israel came up with a significant pullback. Syrian Vice Foreign Minister Abdel Ghani Rafii told TIME Correspondent William Stewart in a calm and strangely relaxed Damascus last week: "If we have assur ances about withdrawal and the restoration of Palestinian rights, we can dis cuss the rest at Geneva. Disengagement is the interim step...