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...grown up in a society in which old class lines have gradually been eroded. At the time of the partitioning of Palestine, a gentleman in Egypt avoided manual labor to the point of rarely carrying his own briefcase. Students in the Arab oil cities would never work lest they disgrace their families (by suggesting that the family was in need of money) but would take jobs as dishwashers or bellhops while studying in Europe or the U.S. Many of these young intellectuals-the emerging elite of the Arab world-returned home imbued if not exactly with the Protestant work ethic...
...hustings, Nixon and his advisers seem to believe that the crisis is past, and that the President can now emerge from his isolation. This week in New Orleans he will address the Veterans of Foreign Wars, and soon after that will hold his first press conference since March 15. Lest reporters become overly optimistic, however, Deputy Press Secretary Gerald Warren let it be known last week that Nixon may choose not to respond to detailed questions about Watergate, on the ground that he has already spoken "forthrightly" on the subject...
...noting that U.S. installations in West Germany were the target of two bomb attacks in May 1972, which killed four soldiers. There have been repeated thefts of machine guns, ammunition and explosives from depots, several cases of arson and numerous attempts to sabotage missile installations. The Army is concerned lest some of its own troops have been involved. There has been continuing militancy among U.S. troops in Germany, particularly among blacks...
...unit in one of the other four-nozzle clusters when a valve jammed during rendezvous with Skylab-left the ferry craft with part of its attitude control system not working. For several nerve-racking hours last week, NASA officials contemplated bringing the second crew of Skylab astronauts home immediately, lest any further deterioration in the Apollo rocket control system jeopardize their chances of a safe splashdown. By week's end the space agency had settled on a different course. For the time being at least, the Skylab team would be allowed to continue its record-breaking 59-day mission...
Everybody else is the public. The public is of a different breed than the natives. It is made of outsiders, invaders, barred access to the club lest they overrun it. But this is no motley ball-park public. It is a public with money, or at least with pretensions to it. The men wear Fred Perry sportshirts and the women have tennis tans. They have come, not just to see the pros, but to see Longwood, and to mix with...