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...business entrepreneur is a very special kind of achiever. According to David C. McClelland of Harvard's Department of Social Relations, he is "more concerned with achieving success than with avoiding failure." He sees the world as neither benevolent nor malign but neutral, and he never doubts his power to hold his own in the marketplace. He is as readily bored by routine as he is challenged by risk taking - and he knows how to reckon the odds. Such a man is obviously valu able to any economy, but he is also rare. Is there a way to develop...
That, Gajdusek says, may have been a mistake. Some of these delayed-fuse viruses may take years to exert their malign effects in small animals, and decades in long-lived Homo sapiens. Virologist Gajdusek, a human whirlwind who goes around the world half a dozen times a year, decided to become a model of patience. At the institute, he set up a long-range study program with a variety of animals, ranging from tree shrews to sheep and goats, a dozen species of monkeys, and a number of forbiddingly expensive chimpanzees...
Despite the script, The Lion in Winter often succeeds, primarily because of its stars. O'Toole, as the cunning, quirky King Henry, explodes with lofty authority when he catches his snarling cubs trying to unseat the old lion, or when he condemns his malign wife to lifelong imprisonment. As Eleanor, Hepburn is, at 59, unmistakably Hepburn; the quavering accent is still as prominent as her cheekbones. But she adds to what might have been simply a personality portrayal a sly, dry delivery that breaks her brittle dialogue in all the right places. As she mocks herself in a hand...
Through the streets of Saigon, and in the dark approaches to dozens of towns and military installations throughout South Viet Nam, other Vietnamese made their furtive way, intent on celebrating only death? and on launching the Year of the Monkey on its malign way before it was many hours old. After the merrymakers had retired and the last firecrackers had sputtered out on the ground, they struck with a fierceness and bloody destructiveness that Viet Nam has not seen even in three decades of nearly continuous warfare. Up and down the narrow length of South Viet Nam, more than...
...Viet Nam. California's Sydney Omarr saw a good year for Johnson, but Omarr's principal Los Angeles rival, Carroll Righter, disagreed. Lyndon Johnson is a Virgo, noted Righter, and so his prospect will remain precarious, with the planets of Uranus and Pluto still exercising a malign influence. Said Righter, in the kind of prediction that any astrologer would agree was a wise one: "Virgos could be catapulted to the top-or to the bottom...