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...timidly, in the hope of avoiding errors, that he will fail to generate sufficient enthusiasm to win. Thus, after Nixon carefully avoided comment on a number of touchy issues during a televised interview in Chicago last week, Humphrey happily said: "I remember when Tom Dewey thought he could glide through a campaign full of love and kisses. All he thought he had to do was smile. He was wrong...
...best, such predictions are still a rough art. Depending on its size, shape and density, as well as atmospheric conditions, a satellite or other piece of space hardware can plunge down on a steep trajectory, glide relatively slowly through the air, or skip along like a pebble across water. To assure accuracy, Roth gets updated calculations from NORAD two or three hours before an expected re-entry and flashes out a final warning over United's communications setup...
Over the Shoulders. At times, Mishima's single-pattern plot seems to glide in slow, repetitive cycles, freezing faces in glaring expressions like kabuki actors: frenzied passion, cross-eyed frustration. Still, what keeps the novel from being another existentialist dead end is the presence of the author. It is finally not the hang-ups of his characters but the questions Mishima asks about them that fascinate-including the ultimate, curiously Japanese question that his novel tests for itself: Can obsession with death, pushed to an extreme, result in some absolute awareness of life...
...Toward a Democratic Left, Author Harrington, 40, is recapitulating in dialectical terms his own crablike glide to the right in search of greater political influence. The goal, he said recently, "is to maintain your ideals without becoming irrelevant, without just sitting up on a hilltop spinning theories." To that end, he has joined the Independent Democrats on his home turf in Greenwich Village, thinks now that he made a mistake in not voting for John Kennedy in 1960. "I came to the conclusion," he admitted, "that to call upon the liberals and radicals to leave the Democrats and join...
Computer Directed. Today, all five of Oscar Mayer's processing plants across the U.S. have two-story contraptions where uninterrupted battalions of 36,000 wieners an hour glide toward their destination, untouched by human hands. Computers print out the best formulas for the next day's sausage production by comparing current market prices of meat cuts with the various recipes that may be used...