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Eleanor Belmont, a former actress and wife of Millionaire August, hired Houdini to be handcuffed, bound with ropes and chains and dropped overboard from the family yacht, merely to divert some friends. Toward the end of her career, she was heard correcting the upright novelist John P. Marquand for his lack of taste and reticence...
Besides his hegemonic ambitions and fear of the PLO, there is another reason for Assad's adventurism in Lebanon. As minority ruler, he is under siege from his Moslem opponents domestically. When he ventures into Lebanon to divert attention from his problems at home, an American mediator negotiates a cease-five which allows him to keep his missiles trained on Israel. When Menachem Begin ventures into Lebanon in pursuit of terrorists who oppose his state with every means at their disposal-partly to divert attention from the painful operations in the Sinai necessary for peace-he is accused of ignoring...
President Bok and Robin and Robin Schmidt, vice president for government and community relations, both deny that Wilkins ever promised a report. But their denials are also part of the continuing attempts to divert public attention from problems until the people who care move out. Schmidt, for example, was told that Wilkins' comments had been published last April. "That may mean something to you," he said. "But it doesn't to me. I used to be a reporter...
...Eaton Corp.'s AIL Division frankly admit that their company will have to raid other electronics firms to find the engineers and computer experts needed to make controls for B-1 bombers. Asserts Economics Professor P.M. Scherer of Northwestern University: "This means either a bloody battle to divert engineers from other businesses into defense, or a very slow process of adjustment...
...vacuous inertia, a canned wisdom of the East persuading them - destructively - that mere being would suffice, was even superior to action. "Let It Be," crooned Paul McCartney. Scientific excellence seemed apocalyptically suspect - the route to pollution and nuclear destruction. Striving became suspect. A leveling contempt for "elitism" helped to divert much of a generation from the ambition to be excellent...