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...Dick Nixon getting married: "The serious young man, son of a Quaker saint, docilely lines up at the marriage mart, where all the gooiest extras-orange blossoms, 'O Promise Me,' illusion veils -cover the emptiness of the transaction." It is both Wills' method and mistake to insert his aesthetic objections to Nixon into substantive arguments...
...Insert finger, tug and quaff: in those few seconds, the aluminum ring atop a pop-top can of beer or soda fulfills its function and becomes instant junk. Garbage men hate the rings because the sharp edges can cut. So do barefooted hippies and strollers on the beach. So do conservationists, who lament the litter. To at least one man, however, pop-top rings are a source of inspiration and income-and the raw material for a revival of a medieval fashion...
...demonstrator tries to take you gun, stab him. Stab em, that's right, and when they see several of their buddies lying in the street severely wounded, they'll get the message." Only minutes before the same officer had told his men, "The most effective place to insert the bayonet is in the neck or crotch; these areas are soft and vulnerable; if you don't kill your man, you'll surely disable him." The bayonet instruction was oriented toward the battlefield, but no one made the distinction between one battlefield and another...
...couples prefer sterilization to the long-term use of contraceptives? "Because they know that failure rates from most forms of contraception are too high," Dr. Edey says. "Or they are afraid of side effects from the Pill, or they have aesthetic objections to having to remember to insert something at what is emotionally the wrong time...
...Doctrine, which proclaims Moscow's right to "defend" any member of the Warsaw Pact against "military or revanchist forces." The treaty also calls for mutual military assistance in case of attack, "no matter what state or group of states" is involved. That provision, which the Kremlin wants to insert in the friendship treaties that it has imposed on all the East-bloc countries, would apparently obligate those countries to aid Russia in case of a Sino-Soviet war. Some bloc members, noting that past friendship pacts were designed to foil only "aggression" from the West, are reluctant to comply...