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...nature of any international guarantees of the ultimate borders. In its effort to knock down charges of a SALT sellout, the Administration got some help from the Syrians: they were as critical of the declaration as the Israelis?only their complaint was that their Soviet patrons had been too generous to Israel...
...myself that had spurred my three-year-old ambition, but playing what others might want to hear and thus forging contacts between human beings." The emphasis, if not the timing, is wholly believable, for Menuhin's autobiography is above all a book about people, a series of descerning and generous portraits of the individuals encountered throughout a lifetime. The great and lowly alike are brought to life with a few deft words: de Gaulle, Nehru, Ben-Gurion, Willa Cather ("Aunt Willa...a rock of strength and sweetness"), Bela Bartok ("a composer to bear comparison with the giants of the past...
...beleaguered Russell attempted to save further embarrassment in the next inning by pretending not to see a high-hopper off the bat of Tim McCarver which bounced right by him. Despite a generous offical scorer who scored a hit on the play, Russell was again the goat when McCarver crossed the plate on Steve Carlton's base...
...Rides Again." France's young philosophers may have read Arthur Koestler, but they have certainly studied Karl Popper. Their philosophies, as described in your article, sound like Pop parodies of selected chapters from Popper's The Open Society and Its Enemies (first published in 1945), plus a generous admixture of disconcertingly old-fashioned Weltschmerz...
...Congress next week, but the Bert Lance affair so badly distracted and delayed his decision making that the tax package will not be unwrapped until a week or so later. The President is expected to propose cutting tax rates for all individual taxpayers and corporations,* giving business a more generous investment tax credit, and easing the taxation of corporate dividends-but also taxing capital gains as ordinary income and cracking down on expense-account deductions. Businessmen are unsure of not only what the effects would be on their companies, but also whether Congress will enact the proposals favorable to them...