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...tempting to confuse this gentle, mild-mannered man with his heroes. Like The Last Gentleman, he tends to become addled in New York, a city that he generally tries to avoid. He is no longer a compulsive moviegoer, but he leaves the television on-without sound-all evening long. "I'm afraid the world will end when I'm not looking," he says. During lunch he watches .Days of Our Lives. "I love the recurring themes in soap-opera serials. The women get pregnant and the men get amnesia. The perfect fictional character would have progressive amnesia...
...reason for the party's decline is the steady recovery of the West German economy. The mild recession in 1966 frightened many West Germans and made them susceptible to the National Democrats' highly nationalistic economic preachings. Another reason is the breakup of the Grand Coalition of Christian Democrats and Social Democrats, which had denied the country an effective parliamentary opposition. After Willy Brandt took office in late 1969, the opposition Christian Democrats proved successful in attracting much of the archconservative and protest vote that had briefly backed the National Democrats...
Most emotionally secure men have sympathy with the rational aims of the Women's Liberation movement and show either amused tolerance or mild disdain for its more hysterical demands. But among some males, there is a different response. Shaken by the feminist activities and attitudes of their wives or girl friends, they have been drawn into a new social phenomenon: the men's liberation movement...
...challenge is all the stronger because it comes from an unlikely source. A Navy veteran, McCloskey volunteered for the Marines during the Korean War and won the Silver Star, the Purple Heart and the Navy Cross in combat as a second lieutenant. Elected to Congress in 1967 on a mild antiwar platform, outpolling among others Shirley Temple Black, he has been a supporter of the President on domestic issues...
...Stanford blast, occurring at 3:54 a.m., came just hours after rifle shots had punctured two electric transformers at the Stanford central power station. According to a Stanford Daily News reporter, the resultant leakage would have caused a mild explosion had it not been discovered quickly...