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...book, an epic about a sexist talking fish. During a visit to Atlanta, where he read passages from The Flounder, Grass naturally had some talking to do. "The women's lib movement," he said, "has a lot of women who want to use power like men. We have enough stupid men who use power." Grass also had some criticisms about American writers, who, he claims, have not confronted the Viet Nam War. Says Grass: "If you don't face it, it means two things: you lost the war and you've also lost the ability to make...
Soviet TV did not show any live pictures of the touchdown on a plain in Kazakhstan or the wobbly emergence of the men from their capsule after 4½ months of weightlessness. But a preliminary checkup showed that the cosmonauts had withstood their ordeal well, keeping in shape with rigorous exercises and the use of vacuum suits that forced their blood to circulate as if they were standing upright on earth. Encouraged by the results, Flight Director Alexei Yeliseyev contended that the Soviets could now send out manned space expeditions of practically unlimited duration...
Iacocca's return was almost as startling as his departure. Only last July, one of Detroit's sharpest marketing men was abruptly ousted after 32 years at Ford, the last eight years as president. The precise reasons for Iacocca's downfall are still unclear, but at least one of the causes was a clash of wills with Chairman Henry Ford II. After his firing formally took effect in mid-October, Iacocca was relegated to a drab, linoleum-floored office in a spare-parts warehouse near Ford's headquarters in Dearborn, Mich...
Many industry analysts are skeptical that the arrival of one of Ford's better idea men can have much immediate impact. Says Ronald Glantz, a vice president of Paine Webber Mitchell Hutchins: "It takes three years under a crash program to design a new car. Whatever happens in '79, '80 and '81 will be due to the programs already in place." He adds: "The auto game in the '70s and the '80s will be fuel efficiency, space efficiency, ease of assembly-and none of those are Iacocca's strong points." But others disagree...
...football some kind of mass men's room solicitation of the national psyche? Not at all, says Dundes. It is merely a sanctioned form of theater where players and fans can safely discharge their homoerotic impulses. Coaches who ask players to refrain from sex before a game intuitively understand that football is a temporary substitute for heterosexuality, just as "football widows" understand that their husbands are "dead to them sexually" while football is on TV. "Football is a healthy outlet for male-to-male affections," says Dundes, "just as spin the bottle and post office are healthy outlets...