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...action was frigid and furious in the glacial rink, where the glare of the arena lights reflected menacingly off the steel of the skates and the glossy smoothness...
...ringed off by expressways and skyscrapers in Boston's North End. Ideological differences take the form of squabbles between Democrats and Republicans in the House Ways and Means Committee. The American future is mirrored in the tree-lined streets of Bethesda and Grosse Point and Scarsdale, insulated from the glare of the crime lights on the other side of the city line...
...political wife, and the somewhat lesser strains borne by the political husband (see box page 19), is more than a matter of mere gossip, more than a personal problem. It was important enough to help knock the leading Democratic contender out of the 1976 presidential race. Under the steady glare of television, the personality and character of the political wife is more crucial than ever, but the treatment she receives has not caught up with her importance. Torn between the role she feels she ought to fill and the part that is handed her, she understandably grows distraught. The problem...
...pursuing about nine different actions at one time. If you look at his court calendar, it's mystifying that he was able to make as many effective appearances as he did. It was a marathon performance under the most intense pressure and in the full X-ray glare of the media." For all this, St. Clair had resigned from his law firm and served at a $42,500 annual salary-far below the estimated $200,000 he would have earned in Boston...
...under new leadership, we can turn our attention to those global problems that glare upon us so implacably: the exhaustion of natural resources of energy and of food; the imminent doubling of the world's population in the next half-century; the use and misuse of atomic power, and similar problems. At least we now have a better chance to consider these problems in an atmosphere of nonpartisanship than we did while engaged in the elementary though essential task of saving our political and constitutional system. For too long, now, our center of gravity has been Washington...