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...range, will doom the big-deck carrier. The Consolidated Guidance maintains it has become "dubious at best" that the Navy's carriers could survive off the coast of Norway, where they are certain to be blitzed by swarms of Soviet submarines and land-based bombers as soon as hostilities erupt...
...them: Secret Police Chief Wang Tung-hsing, Peking Mayor Wu Teh and even Chairman Hua), while others (like Teng Hsiao-p'ing) were purged. In the long run, and despite the talk in Peking of a "united front," there remains a possibility that a new power struggle will erupt between Hua's supporters and Teng's veteran technocrats...
Shared appointments have their drawbacks for the couples. Tenure becomes a mid-career crisis; most colleges refuse to split a tenured post, so each partner must be considered separately. Professional jealousy can erupt between the sharers. Says Courtney Gordon: "You have to be noncompetitive in terms of your job?and have a very strong marriage." Another problem: it is virtually impossible to leave the office behind. The Grubers, for example, agreed initially that there would be no shop talk at meals. But after "a number of silent dinners," they gave in, and have never regretted it. Indeed, says Marjorie Woods...
...grim-faced political leaders huddling long into the night. Yet the storm gathering force last week in Italy was more ominous than any of the change-of-government crises that have preceded it-on the average of one every ten months since 1946. Amid the worst violence to erupt in the country in five years, the 18-month-old minority government of Premier Giulio Andreotti, faltering for weeks, slid toward all but certain collapse. Andreotti was expected to submit his resignation to President Giovanni Leone early this week, thus setting the stage for the moment that democratic governments around...
Violence was ever ready to erupt in Lee. At nine, he lunged at his half brother with a butcher knife-an attack that their mother dismissed as one of Lee's "little scuffles." A New York City social worker, who interviewed Lee when he was a truant of 13, reported that he had fantasies of being powerful and killing people. Before he turned 16 he confided to a friend that he would like to kill President Eisenhower "because he was exploiting the working class." After Lee shot at and very nearly killed General Walker, Marina became convinced that...