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...Fastest Wit. The author is Hungarian-born Shabtai Teveth, 45, a leading Israeli journalist and writer (The Tanks of Tammuz), who had nine lengthy interviews with Dayan. Teveth portrays an earthy, sometimes unpredictable man -and the fastest wit in the Middle East. Stopped on one occasion by a military policeman for driving 75 m.p.h. when the military speed limit was 44 m.p.h., Dayan said with a wry smile: "I have only one eye. What do you want me to watch-the speedometer or the road...
...fastest race Hanover has seen for a long time, the Harvard cross country team hit the comeback trail again yesterday and edged Dartmouth...
Boondoggling. Part of LEAA's difficulties can be attributed to its newness; birth pangs plague any bureaucratic infant. It boasts the fastest-growing budget of any federal agency: LEAA appropriations have jumped from $63 million in fiscal 1969 to $699 million in the current fiscal year. The agency also limped along for ten months without a chief administrator. Jerris Leonard, a Mitchell protégé who was less than a smashing success as the Justice Department's civil rights chief, finally moved over to run LEAA last April. Still, the one channel through which the Administration could...
...Concept. The main object of the games was to test a new Yugoslav defense concept devised after the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. In a development that has gone almost totally unnoticed abroad, Yugoslavia has quietly carried out the world's fastest buildup of conventional forces. More than 1,000,000 Yugoslav workers between the ages of 18 and 45 have been organized into a new auxiliary territorial army, supplementing the regular armed forces and fully equipped with heavy infantry, antitank and antiaircraft weaponry. By 1973 the number will grow to 3,000,000, giving the country...
...used to be rare for anyone to get a doctoral degree in religion unless he was a clergyman. But in the past decade so many students have been studying religion for personal reasons and to become teachers that it is now the fastest-growing graduate field at secular universities. More doctorates (335 last year) are now granted in religion than in philosophy, geology, art, music, speech or any language...