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Succumbing (happily) to a case of World Cup fever...
...globe every four years, come what may. Duration of the attack: 25 days at its full-blown stage, preceded by weeks of increasingly restless intensity. The symptoms: curious declines in national productivity, chronic absenteeism, peripatesis, extraordinary outbursts of chauvinistic expression. The cure: absolutely none. The malady is World Cup fever, and as teams from 16 nations* descended on host country Argentina last week for this year's play-off for world soccer supremacy, North Americans were more or less on the sidelines: a large portion of humanity was preparing for its ultimate soccer kicks...
...sponsoring Fédération Internationale de Football Association since 1913, was eliminated late in 1976. But as this week's opening ceremonies loomed, and some 20,000 soccer fanatics and journalists (4,000 will cover the event) began arriving in Buenos Aires, World Cup fever reached its quadrennial pitch...
Otherwise, one cannot help thinking this richly publicized picture would never have been heard of if Saturday Night Fever had not hit it big. But Friday is no Saturday, and it is not just John Travolta who is missing. It is a whole feeling for the subject, and the basic skills required to communicate that feeling...
...alternatives offered by the Republicans, while impressing many people, have not as yet won majority support; Nixon was elected and re-elected largely because he ran against Viet Nam and radicalism. So, with the distorting convulsion of Viet Nam, the fever of the counterculture and the huge distraction of Watergate out of the way, Carter suddenly inherited all the unsolved, postponed or sidetracked problems about how to order our society, accompanied by the serious economic problems-huge energy costs, increasing social demands, slowed growth-that no industrial society has yet been able to solve. It was widely thought that...