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...fist to close on a finger...
...that the U.S. leads all nations in both its assessed and its far larger voluntary contributions to the U.N., bearing 40% of the total, while the Soviet Union trails badly with only 7%. "When the U.S.S.R. lectures my country on who does what to help," declared Bush, wagging a finger at Safronchuk, "please keep these figures in mind...
Managing editor Charlie Cuneo explained his team's poor showing. "I was setting up the press for our new tabloid size paper and my index finger got en ought in the rollers," he said...
...lack of it. There are even a few side trips. Like a true politician, Mailer does not miss the opportunity to continue his attack on Women's Liberation. Like a celebrity chaser, he goes to the White House to interview Henry Kissinger, who easily wraps Mailer round his finger. But mostly Mailer does what Mailer does best: tossing out metaphors, similes and off-cuff vignettes -usually making them stick...
...more aggressive. "It's almost as if Aug. 1 was a magic date-sales have picked up so well since," says John Brunelle, vice president of San Francisco-based I. Magnin department stores. Alvin Ferst, vice president of Rich's in Atlanta, agrees: "I cannot lay my finger on a concrete reason, but there has been a general resurgence of spending...