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...feminists want to take on the world's work, let them go ahead. Next thing you know, they'll insist we men sleep in the mornings while they trudge off to support us. Then we'd have to care for an automated house, fuss with our kids, play poker afternoons and, I suppose, sympathize with them evenings while they attacked us sexually...
True to Mom's worst fears, the girl skitters off with another man before blind love's final victory. Cast as an aspiring actress, Blythe Danner puts on a studied display of spontaneity with much mannered fuss and fluster. With the lines Keir Dullea has been given, he would be better off mute...
...companies regularly take over large foreign concerns without much fuss. When a foreign corporation tries to take control of a big U.S. firm, however, Washington immediately starts sounding the alarm. That was the cynical conclusion drawn by many Europeans last week from the U.S. Justice Department's announcement that it would sue to prevent British Petroleum from acquiring control of Standard Oil (Ohio). In fact, much to the chagrin of the State Department, Justice lawyers appeared to be mechanically applying their strict interpretation of antitrust law to what they saw as just another merger-without appreciating that this merger...
...important. He suggests, for example, that a decrease in the death rate might not occur during the period of anticipation before Christmas-perhaps because of the familiar pressures that also accompany that season. Or it might not apply to ordinary people whose birthdays are not celebrated with the fuss that surrounds a man of fame. Still, the statistics that Phillips has gathered are convincing enough to impress the Russell Sage Foundation, which is oriented toward the social sciences; it has just given him an eleven-month grant for additional explorations of the vital buoyancy of optimism. Eventually he hopes...
Richard Nixon proudly unveiled his new Chief Justice, Warren Burger, in an East Room spectacular last May attended by live television cameras and the highest ranks of his Administration. There was no such ceremonial fuss last week as he named his first Associate Justice to the Supreme Court. In the press room at Laguna Beach, 17 miles from the western White House at San Clemente, Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler almost perfunctorily announced that Nixon had appointed South Carolina's Clement Furman Haynsworth, chief judge of the Fourth Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals, to fill the seat vacated...