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...SHAKESPEAREAN. In Henry IV, Prince Hal declares: "If all the year were playing holidays, to sport would be as tedious as to work." The sheer number of baseball and basketball contests tends to satiate all but the most avid fans...
...perhaps the most imaginative theory offered to date, University of Texas Physicists Albert A. Jackson IV and Michael P. Ryan Jr. have proposed that the 1908 explosion was caused by a "black hole" - a bizarre celestial object scientists believe exist in great numbers throughout the universe...
...square-shouldered, level-eyed, they seemed as impressive and impassive-and as remote-as the pyramids they built. This was the image of Egypt's pharaohs, bodied forth in stone by the royal sculptors, for some 1,500 years. Then, in 1378 B.C., began the reign of Amenhotep IV. For a time so remote in history, the records are understandably imprecise. But it seems clear that in his 17-year rule, Amenhotep IV changed the style and direction...
...Drama was eerily reminiscent of an episode involving many of the President's same advisers last spring, when Shultz was attending an international bankers meeting in Paris. Just before leaving, he had drafted what he thought would be a swift transition from the collapsing Phase III to Phase IV. Suddenly Laird, then newly appointed, entered the scene, remarking for the first time in public that tighter controls were under consideration. The idea of a temporary freeze was especially favored by former Treasury Secretary John Connally−who last week just happened to hold his first face-to-face meeting...
With skillful management, especially in restoring credibility to the Phase IV guidelines, most economists believe that such a possibility can still be averted...