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...getting tape recordings from the White House. The key figure, South Korean Entrepreneur Tongsun Park, hastily moved from Washington to London last year after the first published reports that he had given some Congressmen up to $10,000 each. The ethics committee, headed by Georgia's John J. Flynt Jr., has been looking into Koreagate for almost ten months without noticeable progress. Further tarnishing the House's image, the committee's counsel, Philip Lacovara, 33, who was Jaworski's Watergate assistant, quit two weeks ago, claiming that Flynt was not fully cooperating...
Lufthansa's new in-flight Bonn-ton program, which aims to relieve the frazzling effect on passenger extremities produced by prolonged jet travel, derives directly from the mini-gymnastics devised for cramped U.S. astronauts on flights to the moon. Explains Jürgen Palm, the German airline's fitness guru: "The problem of long-distance airline passengers is the same as that of astronauts: how to keep the muscles from going all slack and the blood from settling in legs and feet and to keep the joints from becoming stiff. For people who are not in shape, getting...
...many, such explanations of noble deeds are cold comfort. But Harvard Anthropologist Melvin J. Konner sees a bright side to reciprocal altruism. Sociobiologists, he says, "have in fact uplifted [human nature] by showing that altruism, long thought to be a thin cultural veneer, belongs instead to the deepest part of our being, produced by countless aeons of consistent evolution...
...admitted a white member? The only sensible answer to both questions is yes. The notion of a black caucus with white members is silly on its face. So is the notion of a Jewish club that admits non-Jewish members. For this reason alone, Presidential Counsel Robert J. Lipshutz's resignation from Atlanta's formerly Jewish Standard Club, in protest against its restricted membership, seemed somewhat strange. He was demanding, in effect, that the club relinquish the essence of its nature...
...periodical, who came to court with a button saying GAY NEWS FIGHTS ON in the lapel of his conservative three-piece gray suit. The offense: publishing a poem by James Kirkup, in which a Roman centurion describes his sexual relations with the body of the crucified Christ. Prosecutor John J. Smyth called the verses "so vile that it would be hard for even the most perverted imagination to conjure up anything worse...