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...introduced a no-confidence motion, and so did two small parties of the far left and far right. During the noisy Knesset debate, Begin's handling of the economy came under attack again and again. "The government is like an unmanned space ship with no objective and no map," groused Gad Yaacobi, the Labor Party's chief economic spokesman. Weizman said he voted against his own party to pre serve the Camp David accords, since many Israelis were blaming their econom ic woes on the return of the Sinai oil fields to Egyptian sovereignty. Said...
...Emblems of travel, dwarfed mementos, a little box of mummified waves and shrunken coasts, peninsulas, planets, things set in compartments with an air of rigorous sentiment, each of the 21 compass needles insouciantly pointing in a different direction: it is the log of no ordinary voyage. (Even the map on the inside of the lid depicts an excessively remote coastline, that of the Great Australian Bight.) The earth is presented not as our daily habitat but as one strange planet among others, which to Cornell...
...planets into one; but starting with two of the Dutch clay bubble pipes he acquired at the New York World's Fair in 1939, Cornell was able to construct an entire tone poem about effigies and similarities: an 18th century French planetary map, two wineglasses (distantly recalling Dante's crystal heaven), a cork ball, a fossil ammonite unwinding its eternal spiral...
...something funny was happening on the 24-ft. by 14-ft. plastic and Plexiglas map at NBC, behind which a team of electricians waited to flick switches that would illuminate 7,324 light bulbs-red ones for Carter, blue for Reagan, white for Anderson. States were turning peacock blue faster than John Chancellor and his team could announce them. Looking over his shoulder at the epidemic of blue, David Brinkley observed: "It's beginning to look like a suburban swimming pool." Other NBC staffers took to calling it "Lake Reagan." New Hampshire, Vermont, Delaware and South Carolina (18 electoral...
...television. It also requires a driving vision of where the nation is and where it should be heading, and why. It requires a clear, compelling purpose, from which presidential priorities then flow logically. This is central to an effective presidency: the vision, the sense of direction, to see the map whole and to chart the basic course without leading the country aimlessly on one detour after another...