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Moreover, opponents are threatening a prolonged talkathon that could drag on into next year's presidential primary season. If so, demands would rise that a vote be put off until after the elections. Altogether, it was an unhappy week for SALT backers, who could echo King Pyrrhus:"Another such victory and I shall be ruined...
...ponder why Carter's new maturity and depth did not arrive until his standing in the national opinion polls fell into the basement and his own warm political body was threatened. In that is an echo of the modern curse of personality politics. But that is less important if through some alchemy of these past weeks Jimmy Carter has joined the presidential club, likes it in there and wants to stay there badly enough to change himself. We all benefit...
...attitude of enthusiasm, anticipation and optimism--"and, you can say, reckless abandon," adds sophomore winger Dave Burke--have swept aside memories of three season of disappointment, disenchantment and, last year, disaster. The difference, compared to last year, says Cleary, "is like night and day." His players echo that sentiment. Dave Burke: "Most of the trouble is behind us--we're totally gung-ho." Newly elected co-captain (along with goalie John Hynes) Graham Carter: "The end of one era is going out--the beginning of a new era is in." Sophomore goalie Wade Lau: "This group of kids...
...young, modern Jew, acutely aware of the horror of the Holocaust yet eager to spare his writing any Jewish self-pity. His stories are icy, even mean, much to his parents' chagrin. Nathan's battle with his family over a story they deem insulting to Jews must echo a similar fight Roth himself waged with his relatives over Portnoy's Complaint...
Peking is calling this ambitious national goal a New Long March, an echo of the 6,000-mile trek in the 1930s by Mao and his troops that eventually led to the takeover of China. To check on the progress toward this goal, TIME Science Editor Frederic Golden last month visited Chinese research centers, universities, hospitals, factories and communes on a 15-day, five-city tour with the first delegation of American science journalists to the People's Republic. His report...