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...Kania's lip service to the Soviet bloc, the Central Committee's actions seemed to fly in the face of Moscow's injunctions. Only six days before the plenum began, hard-lining Soviet Ideologue Mikhail Suslov had flown to Warsaw to deliver what was presumed to be a stiff warning to hold the line against further democratization. Shortly after that, a sizzling article published by TASS, the official Soviet news agency, charged unnamed Polish party reformists with "revisionism"-one of the gravest epithets in the Communist lexicon and one that was invoked against the reform-minded Czechoslovak...
Presidents Johnson, Nixon and Carter gave lip service-and often much more -to the idea of safeguarding America's natural resources. Year after year Congress came through nobly, enacting such landmark legislation as the Clean Air and Clean Water acts, and a series of bills designed to protect endangered species. In 1980 the nation's legislators even created a "superfund" to clean up toxic-waste dumps. The new Administration plans to reverse much of that. Says Audubon Society President Russell Peterson, Reagan is "trying to turn back the clock...
...whupped the Greatest. Even Ali, who remained strangely silent about Louis' death, concurs. As he tearfully told TIME last week, "Joe Louis was my inspiration. I idolized him. He wrote the book on boxing-the way he stood, the way he blocked shots was beautiful. I just give lip service to being the greatest. He was the greatest." Louis was to be buried in Arlington National Cemetery at the request of President Reagan, the dancing done, the piper paid in full...
Many educators give lip service to such familiar and useful aims. Boyer's main point, though, is that most colleges ignore them in the day-to-day business of planning curriculums. Instead of thinking about how best to provide a general education, most colleges, says Boyer, merely turn students loose to choose from a grab bag of courses that make the approved list as a result of academic politics. In planning student programs, explains Carnegie Senior Fellow Arthur Levine, "at most schools, three credits in economics is the same as three in political science. Biology is equivalent to physics...
...wool Democrat. "That and the beginning of spring give me energy that flows to my hair roots." Even before they noticed the sapphire-and-diamond "friendship ring" on Gouletas' finger last week, reporters were asking if a wedding was in the works. "A slip of the lip can sink a ship," replied Carey, "and I don't intend for my ship to sink." The lip slipped later in the week on the subject of U.S.-made automobiles. Disposable "Rleenex cars," he called them. Former Girlfriend and Ford Motor Heiress Anne Ford Uzielli would not have liked that...