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Sadat's breakfast, as usual, was a spoonful of honey. He watches his health carefully, and is something of a hypochondriac who often complains of feeling ill. Sadat perspires a lot, and because he is susceptible to colds, he forbids air conditioning wherever he stays. The perspiration embarrasses him slightly because the dampness on his brow and chin makes him look more tense than he really is. An alert aide is always close by to pass him a fresh white handkerchief to dab his face. Perhaps because he has had a minor heart attack, Sadat does not work...
...most other U.S. education officials, about the U.S. Civil Rights Commission's Forms 101 and 102. They demand that he list the number of black, Hispanic, female and handicapped pupils in each class in the city's schools. Loughlin notes that the federal rules require gathering "a lot of data that we don't keep and that is illegal for us to find out." How does Loughlin cope? "Some of the answers we just make up," he confesses...
...electronic robot welding machines that do 92% of the welding formerly performed by hand. Production will be increased by one-third, to 60 Horizons and Omnis an hour, v. the 45 larger cars per hour that had been built there. That should increase profits, but it alarms a lot of union members because some 200 workers were laid off when the new equipment...
...such a lot of fools...
...Games Society, has gone on since spring and search teams have explored only three levels of the labyrinth cooked up by Dungeon Master Bob Ruppert. It took Ruppert, who in his less real life is an insurance salesman, an entire year to perfect his dungeon. "It's a lot of work being the dungeon master," he says, "and you have to play all the monsters, too. I like to give them a lot of style...