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...leadership fears the U.S. technological superiority in weaponry and thus may be just as eager as Carter to avoid a new race in arms development. At week's end, TIME Moscow Correspondent Marsh Clark reported that Moscow's U.S.A. Institute was working overtime in an attempt to fathom this puzzling new U.S. leader, but that relations between the two powers have generally improved since Carter's election. The flap over the Soviet dissidents, however, was seen by TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott in Washington as portending a possible new chill in U.S. and U.S.S.R. relations...
...hard to fathom how a movie like The Next Man gets made. Watching Sean Connery and Cornelia Sharpe bounce from one inanity to another, one can only guess at the origins of such a project. Consider, for example, some possible entries in a film executive's diary...
...They were nervous. That was their problem," coach Eric Cutler said after the match. "They couldn't quite fathom what their opponents' weakness...
Perhaps the saddest account is that of Brock Chester, voted most popular member of his senior class. Chester committed suicide at 24, with no explanation, no warning. Medved and Wallechinsky interviewed his mother and his high school girl friend, trying to fathom his motive; the conclusion they reach, that he could neither live up to his popularity in school or accept his post-graduation anonymity, is couched in his mother's words, making it a lot more palatable than a slick judgment on someone the authors barely knew could have been. The episode may substantiate Medved's idea that Palisades...
...UHall will never entirely stop feeling this intrusion because it often operates as an old-boy network and Radcliffe women are simply not old boys. As one UHall administrator says, "Mrs. Horner is sitting in the cat-bird seat and the people here just don't know how to fathom...