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...convertibles onto his Super Bowl-size venues. This week and next he will be playing on home turf, six nights at New Jersey's Giants Stadium, which will hold, with field seating, 60,000 people at a time. The size of all this may be a little hard to grasp, but try using this for scale: the Beatles, appearing at Shea Stadium in 1965, played before 56,000 people, one time only. They also played for 35 minutes...
...successful years as President under his belt. That is too long to dismiss as mere luck. The derisive labels of "amiable dunce" and "the Teflon President" lie shattered and discredited. The open contempt that the likes of Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill had for Reagan's limited grasp of the issues and his lack of understanding about his programs looks irrelevant these days. The endless reports about staff conflicts and personality clashes within the Administration, however true, turn out to be footnotes. The vaunted foreign people eaters, such as Canada's Pierre Trudeau, West Germany's Helmut Schmidt...
...health risks of the birth control pill are rampant. All this may help explain why, according to John Hopkins researchers, only about one in three sexually active American girls between ages 15 and 19 uses contraceptives at all. And many who do use them have a rather weak grasp of the methodology: one-quarter of the girls in the NORC survey said they were using birth control at the time they became pregnant...
...home until five months into her pregnancy, when she entered a special school for young mothers. "A lot of the girls had already had their babies," she relates. "When I walked in that classroom, it was like the first time I realized what was happening to me." Unable to grasp their situation, adolescents frequently wait too long even to consider having an abortion. The gravity of such a decision often eludes them. "I was going to have an abortion, but I spent the money on clothes," confesses Sonya Lyde, 18, of Chicago, now the mother of a seven-month...
...what good is effected in pointing that capacious intelligence at fast-moving targets? Why find the missing piece if even the visible pieces will vanish in a shot? Ask Joe Kraft, and he would have said that the good lies in doing it, in using the mind to grasp everything the world can throw at it, baseballs to missiles, because that is how the mind protects the body, protects itself. Understanding is protection. More: understanding is forewarning. More: understanding is life. The individual column does not count, because a column is not supposed to exist alone. A columnist looks...