Word: matter
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...relevance of Mao's dictum that "the richest source of power to wage war lies in the masses of the people." For decades this "people's war" strategy led Chinese generals to maintain religiously that their hordes of soldiers would triumph over any attacker, no matter how sophisticated his weapons. As a result, Peking all but ignored the advances in weapons technology that other countries have been pressing to achieve. Thus while China today can boast the world's largest standing military force, its 3.95 million soldiers, sailors and airmen (compared with 3.67 million for the U.S.S.R...
Caroline and Philippe eventually won over the bride's parents. Whether they would vanquish the press was another matter. Caroline's 42-ft. catamaran, a wedding gift from her father, was ostentatiously brought to the harbor last week, and Rainier's motor yacht was given a fresh coat of paint. Perhaps these were diversionary tactics. Friends hinted that the couple might return to the Galápagos. If so, the archipelago that inspired Darwin will no doubt be overrun by one of the most curious creatures of all: genus scriptorum...
None of these ponderous matters bothered the Argentines in the least. In the big three-tiered River Plate Stadium in Buenos Aires, at the outset of a first-round game between Argentina and Italy, the Argentine fans filled the floodlit night sky with a spectacular storm of torn-up paper. The shock waves set off by their cheering were perceptible as much by the skin of the face and the soles of the feet as by the ears. Italy won when the elusive Roberto Bettega slipped away from the defense and scored the game's only goal...
...were served. Among the 500 guests the only foreign visitor of note was Secretary of State Cyrus Vance's wife Grace. After the traditional rose-syrup toasts, the newlyweds headed off for a honeymoon at Aqaba on the Red Sea. The bride's title had been a matter of some concern, since only two of Hussein's previous three wives became queens. After the wedding, a communiqué settled the question by referring to "King Hussein and Queen...
...course, it is probably unfair to apply very high standards to a book that, after all, pretends to be nothing more than entertainment. Breslin is a marvelously gifted writer, no matter what his topic; a tough, grown-up Irish-American punk, he has a street-corner sense of humor and a sharp ear for dialogue, and his characterizations of middle-class New Yorkers seem to have stepped straight out of the subway. Even in dubious collaboration with Schaap--a sportswriter whose previous literary accomplishments, if that is the work for them, include a bunch of as-told-to locker-room...