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From the White House point of view, he is no improvement on Cox. He is often even more tenacious and less tolerant of anything that stands in his way. A pragmatic and informal man with a prosecutor's instinct for the kill, Jaworski is not so interested as Cox was in legal theory and lengthy staff discussions on the meaning of the law. Once his cases are sound, he wants to get them quickly to court. He is also a remarkably direct and succinct man in verbose Washington, setting some kind of record in his rare TV interview appearances...
...Arming to Disarm in the Age of Détente" [Feb. 11] is like telling two men having a quarrel to train for an all-out fight, hoping that each will recognize the other's strength and back down. But just like two animals with a fighting instinct, they will end up beating each other's brains...
...social reasons for this unheard-of phenomenon: that several hundred thousand young people took up arms against their mother country on the side of her worst enemy. We must consider who was to blame?these young people or the motherland. You cannot explain it by some inborn biological instinct for treachery...
...DeVoto always in such an uproar? Edmund Wilson once asked, genuinely puzzled. Part of the answer is that DeVoto-to use an almost obsolete word for an almost obsolete species -was a curmudgeon. It is Stegner's finest instinct that he does not try to make his curmudgeon correct-just very necessary...
Displaying a sure political instinct, Simon has been extremely sensitive to reports of domestic price-gouging. When truck drivers last month blockaded highways to protest, among other things, allegedly illegal price boosts on diesel fuel, Simon ordered Internal Revenue Service agents to "sweep" truck stops in 16 states. The taxmen found 1,222 of 4,689 truck stops violating regulations. Most were ordered to roll back prices and make refunds to truckers...