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Inscrutable and exotic-so America must have seemed to 22 visiting scholars from China as they got their first glimpses of American life last week. The men and women, ranging in age from 35 to 49, are all enrolled at American University's English Language Institute. After three months of brushing up on their English, they will head for U.S. universities across the country for postgraduate study and research in physics, optical science, molecular biology, chemical engineering and other subjects...
Those were also the years when the volatile Sihanouk brilliantly maintained his balancing act of keeping Cambodia neutral. "He got the U.S. to build a four-lane highway, to the port of Kompong Som," recalls Wilde, "and when the monsoons washed parts of it away, he got the Russians to repair it. He delighted in inviting the diplomatic corps to help build irrigation projects. Every time he dug up a bit of earth at one of those ceremonies, the peasants would catch it, for he was sacred and so was everything he touched...
...Carter got some other good news on the labor front last week. Seeking to narrow the wide rift that has developed between the Administration and labor, the President met at the White House with a delegation of top union leaders headed by A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany, who has been brutally critical of the wage-price program. After the session, Meany indicated that he would soften his objections over policy, making it easier for the Administration to deal with unions...
...expense was negligible because most of the work was handled by the plant's engineers in their spare time. Explains General Manager Robert Young: "I have friends at IBM who say that for $25,000 they'd probably still be hiring consultants. Well, we got the job done because we went out and did it ourselves, and without a lot of analyzing...
...from "normies"; yet when they tried to be normal by refusing medication, their behavior often became more bizarre. Estroff herself tried Prolixin to experience its effects, but quit abruptly after six weeks of tremors, only to plummet into near-suicidal despair. Said she: "It was the closest I ever got to being crazy, and the closest I want...