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Carter's ego-boosting appearance before the N.E.A. was the highlight of a frantic week of sputtering presidential fireworks, or possibly distress signals, as he tried to generate momentum for his campaign. Though he had just returned from a moderately upbeat trip to Europe, Carter took off on another 15-day marathon that would wing him twice across the U.S., then to Japan, then to a stopover in Alaska on the way back and finally to a few days of rest at Sapelo Island off the coast of Georgia, where he would watch the Republican Convention...
...there is little doubt that, when man's ancestors first learned to stand on hind legs, they exposed themselves to aches in the back that have been plaguing their descendants ever since. Today Ramapithecus' spinal distress is experienced millions of times a day around the world. Indeed, after headaches, pain in the back-usually the lower -is man's most common and intractable physical complaint. It is also the object of intensive investigation by doctors into new ways of curing this most ancient of ailments...
...cultures-life is one thing and rhetoric another, and it takes a literal-minded innocent to be deviled by the discrepancy. But Americans often somehow held to the fierce, insistent innocence of their myth even when they penetrated to the deeper parts of the forest, regions of dense moral distress, ambiguity and, in the darkest places, tragedy. In his almost spookily prescient 1955 novel about Viet Nam, The Quiet American, Graham Greene remarked that their innocence makes Americans the most dangerous people in the world...
Though specialized techniques in neonatal intensive care have helped reduce deaths and disability among such infants, their problems remain acute. Besides respiratory distress syndrome, "preemies" are susceptible to heart problems, damage to the gastrointestinal tract, cerebral palsy and mental retardation. Says Rosanne's physician, Dr. Irwin Merkatz, an obstetrical perinatologist at MacDonald House-University Hospitals of Cleveland: "Preterm delivery is the single biggest problem in obstetrics today...
...Monday morning, members of the Congressional Black Caucus emerged from a meeting with Carter at the White House clearly disappointed with his unemployment and urban policies. Illinois Democrat Cardiss Collins complained that Carter's policies are causing "a great deal of distress-financially and spiritually...