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Comparatively, Wednesday's rally was--as political rallies go--mild-mannered. Supporters screamed. Political hanger-ons oohed and aahed. And, in a welcome departure from their behavior in recent weeks, Republican hecklers actually restrained themselves from disrupting the guest speaker...
Admittedly, mudslinging and rhetoric has always played a prominent role in elections everywhere. And arguably, the media's excessive assault on Ferraro and her husband this fall was, by comparison to the treatment of candidates like Thomas Eagleton and Edmund Muskie, mild...
State Department officials have insisted, however, that the Israelis must first tighten the country's belt several notches. In a 90-min. session with Finance Minister Yitzhak Moda'i last week, U.S. Ambassador to Israel Samuel Lewis abandoned his mild-mannered style to deliver a stern lecture on frugality. "You are going to have to drop your standard of living and live within your means," he said. Moda'i seemed to take the injunction to heart when he described the Lewis get-together later to a group of Israeli manufacturers. "This was almost the motto...
There was mild optimism two years ago, when scores on the Scholastic Aptitude Test crept up a notch. Now the optimism has risen to a higher pitch: SAT averages for last June's crop of high school seniors made their largest combined gain since 1963. That was the year the scores began a decline lasting nearly two decades. Out of a possible 800, math results climbed by 3 points, to 471; verbal averages were up by 1, to 426. Says George Hanford, president of the College Entrance Examination Board, which sponsors the test: "We seem to have turned...
...leak out. But she is amazed that none of the books' readers or reviewers were able to identify her prose. "We thought we couldn't possibly get away with it," she told TIME. "The single most astonishing fact is that nobody guessed it was me." The mild ripple created by her books was less surprising. "A very good first novel can get published and get good reviews and then vanish," she said. "Few publishers have the attitude they used to have: keep the writers in print...