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...could be that this success will light a spark, indeed a fire, in the President. His cool and distant smile of the past months could not hide all the hurt in his eyes from the rising national doubts about his competence. As Americans cheer his Camp David achievement, Jimmy Carter with luck and wisdom could be born again a second time in a way that could lift this nation as well as himself. Men in public service are nourished by justified public acclaim. Carter's time has at last come...
NONFICTION: A Distant Mirror, Barbara W. Tuchman ∙ American Caesar, William Manchester Montaillou: The Promised Land of Error, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie Robert Kennedy and His Times, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. ∙ The Gulag Archipelago III, Alexander Solzhenitsyn ∙ The Illusion of Technique, William Barrett ∙ The Snow Leopard, Peter Matthiessen
...heart attack; in Herzogenaurach, West Germany. Dassler and his brother entered the shoe business in 1920, but split after World War II to form fiercely competing firms. With some $700 million in sales yearly, Adidas leads the field in athletic footwear; his brother's company, Puma, is a distant second...
...years Russia belonged to such a category, although Western thinking systematically committed the mistake of denying its autonomous character and therefore never understood it, just as today the West does not understand Russia in communist captivity. It may be that in the past years Japan has increasingly become a distant part of the West, I am no judge here; but as to Israel, for instance, it seems to me that it stands apart from the Western world in that its state system if fundamentally linked to religion...
...called Very Large Array, a monstrous 48 km by 32 km (30 miles by 20 miles) Y-shaped radio telescope, consisting of 27 individual dish-shaped antennas, that is now about half completed in New Mexico. It is designed to probe deep into distant quasars, which may be powered by black holes...