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Carter also tried last week to prove that a down-home country boy can have a good grip on foreign affairs. Six weeks earlier, he had asked three of his foreign policy advisers-Professors Zbigniew Brzezinski and Richard Gardner of Columbia and Milton Katz of Harvard-to prepare an outline for a comprehensive policy statement. Using that document, Carter and his staff worked up drafts for a speech, consulting with Cyrus Vance, a Deputy Defense Secretary in the Johnson Administration...
...Incentives. Kosygin tried to cushion the disappointing prospects for Russia's consumers by dramatizing the recent recession in the West. "The capitalist world has been in the grip of a grave economic crisis," he declared, "an organic disease of the capitalist system aggravated by the protracted militarization of the economy." This was resoundingly seconded by American Communist Party Boss Gus Hall, who described the economic situation in the U.S. as horribly bleak. Kosygin deftly skirted the chronic shortages plaguing the Soviet consumer. He blamed poor weather for last year's disastrous harvest that resulted in a 76-million...
Many of the MIT players use a penholder grip. This grip, introduced by the team of the People's Republic of China, caused the Harvard team (which mainly use the traditional shake-hands grip), to go on the defensive...
...court, Luis demonstrated the baseball handling skills that have taken him years to acquire. The ball always went into his glove with two fingers on it, but came out with a different grip for each pitch in his repertoire. All of the changes came too quickly to see. "He knows the secret of the ball," Fernandez said...
...writing to better the public they were writing for-even when they despaired of civic improvement. Gates has yet to write a book that liberates as fully as it lacerates. But she cares about the national identity as no other living American novelist does. If she can steady her grip on her terrifying, transmogrifying wit, there may yet be a great novel in the already vast Gates canon...