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Goldsmith's eye for the future fascinated Senior Writer Otto Friedrich, who wrote this week's Profile. Says he: "Goldsmith is an extraordinary gambler who knows when to hold them and when to fold them. He also has a lot of luck. All great generals and politicians have that kind of luck...
...birth" of Arab unity. The Jordanian monarch could be forgiven a bit of rhetorical excess. For while deep divisions in the Arab world remained, Hussein had indeed produced a remarkable and unexpected achievement. He had coaxed radical Syria and its inscrutable President, Hafez Assad, back into the Arab fold...
...moved to Highland, Ill., some 35 miles from St. Louis, in 1946. Paul enrolled at Dana College, a Lutheran school in Blair, Neb. He was a little more than a year short of graduation when his parents discovered that the weekly paper in nearby Troy, Ill., was about to fold. With the help of a $3,600 loan guaranteed by the local Lions Club, Paul Simon, 19, was the publisher and owner of the Troy Tribune. "I wanted to be the Walter Lippmann of my generation," he explains, "and this looked better than writing obituaries...
...content affects how well the body conducts electricity. Electrodes are attached to hands and feet, and a small current is applied briefly. Readings measure the amount of resistance to the current, and are used to determine the percentage of fat. The simplest and least expensive technique is the skin-fold test, in which calipers are used to measure pinches of skin at various sites, including the abdomen, thighs and back. One problem: the accuracy of the results varies with the skill of the measurer...
...soaring numbers of students who fail to repay their loans has shocked congressmen and sent Administration and college officials running to find a solution. The government's annual payment on defaulted loans will jump 10-fold from $209 million in 1978 to $2 billion by the end of the decade...