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...mortal distress. He will lie there-at first in pain, later in death-for most of S. O. B. That is because it is his misfortune to have been taking his exercise in the world capital of self-absorption, the beach at Malibu, where movie people tend their tans, mend their deals and bend their minds with all sorts of curious additives. Dying is something that happens to your friend's act in Vegas or your rival's picture in Gotham. It is acceptable as metaphor, inconvenient as reality, something to be ignored in the hopes that...
There seem to be but three ways to go. One is the road already set upon: to mend and strengthen existing international political and technological agreements. It would seem sensible to call for an immediate review of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, had not the last review taken place less than a year ago, accomplishing essentially nothing. No final declaration was agreed upon. Still, yet another review of the NPT might work if it included an agreement among some of the nations that supply nuclear materials to cool their avarice and adopt binding commercial practices. If those that did not sign...
...government -including Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, a top-ranked scholar of the class of '51. Foreign Minister Cheysson (class of '48) is an enarque, as products of the elite school are known, who previously held posts with the leftist Fourth Republic government of Pierre Mendès-France, then was Ambassador to Indonesia under Charles de Gaulle, and served as a commissioner of the European Community in the Giscard years. Fellow E.N.A. graduates are Planning Minister Michel Rocard ('58) and Budget Minister Laurent Fabius ('73), among others...
...this palace, I say: Let's have faith and confidence in the future. Vive la République! Vive la France!" Only once did the impassive-looking President allow himself a show of personal emotion. Pausing in the handshaking that followed his speech, he wrapped his arms around Mendès-France, bringing tears to the venerable Socialist's eyes...
Recent advances in diagnosis and treatment will make damaged hearts easier to mend in the decade ahead. Sophisticated new machines allow doctors to "see" a patient's heart without surgery. Major strides have been made in understanding how the heart works and why disease occurs. These in turn have led to breakthroughs in the operating theater and the drug research laboratory. Says Cardiologist Eugene Braunwald of Brigham and Women's Hospital and Beth Israel in Boston: "There's been more done in cardiology research in the past ten years than in its entire previous history." Roman DeSanctis...