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This open-door policy initially appeared to be a success. First-class hotels began springing up everywhere, and companies from Coca-Cola to Pierre Cardin established plants to take advantage of the cheap labor. Egypt became a magnet for tourists, who spent $800 million there last year...
...Life of Raymond Chandler (1976), Frank MacShane, a Columbia University professor, revealed his subject as a reconciliation of opposites. Chandler's fictive cast talked out of the sides of their mouths; the author was raised in England and given a classical education. His shamus was a magnet for oestrous women; Chandler married Cissy Pascal, 17 years his senior, and remained faithful. Businessmen in his novels are embodiments of venality or sloth; until middle age, Chandler was gainfully employed as a West Coast oil executive. Yet he had much in common with Marlowe, the incorrodible private eye who knew that...
...magnet for that migration will be 43 ft. long, weigh 20,000 lbs. and look like a cross between a dragonfly and a giant howitzer. Its incongruous wings are actually solar panels used to generate electricity for powering the machine. Circling the earth once every 100 min., at an altitude of 310 miles, the space telescope will operate automatically under radio control from earth. It can be returned to earth for major overhauls; otherwise any servicing or repairs will be done by teams of astronauts ferried up by the shuttle. Thus maintained, the telescope's working life is expected...
...school might make a good site for the presidential library (one look at the tired old building indicates its inadequacy, however nice the thought). Speculations resolve into two camps. The most enthusiastic are from businessmen, who hope for Jimmy's return as a new charge on the tourist magnet (even in the Reagan rout, more than 35 million potential visitors did vote for Jimmy, including a good number of oldtimers who can stop off on their way to winter in Florida...
Concentrating too much on the issue of the moment, Carter has passed so many conflicting signals that people at home and abroad often do not know what they are supposed to be hearing. Like a spinning magnet, Carter alternately attracts and repels constituencies, supporting recession and social justice, growth and inflation, energy and environment, security and human rights. A man who arouses no strong feelings of loyalty, Carter has found himself at the mercy of events with little support on Capitol Hill or in the country. He may lapse into demagoguery on the campaign trail, zapping Reagan, but he abhors...