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...None of this careful planning bothered Warsaw's freedom-minded people. While Nixon in his brief arrival speech was drawing smiles from Polish officials with a tactful mention of Vice Admiral Hyman Rickover's Polish birthplace, Makowa Village, and recalling that two Polish glass blowers had been among the first settlers at Jamestown, Va., the excluded crowds waved and shouted beyond the airport gates. And when Nixon's Russian ZIS limousine started out of Babice toward the city, all semblance of formality disappeared...
...assault, violation of child-labor laws, failure to register the manufacture and sale of a poisonous product, and income tax evasion. Said he: "I am a freethinker. What can the outside world offer my family? Prostitution, crime, drunkenness, rock 'n' roll and the blasted television. No senor, none of that for my family...
...patient's symptoms with those of diseases it has previously learned, discards all but three, offers these to the doctor by code number. A couple of questions enable the doctor to rule out two, and he has his diagnosis. But there are several ways of treating this disease, none 100% effective and all with some risk. The physician punches more buttons, lets the computer decide mathematically which treatment has the best chance of success with the least risk. Resorting at last to the historically illegible penmanship of his profession, he writes a prescription...
...heart ailment; in Salem, Ore. From a humble beginning, spare, jaunty McKay built up a political career along with a thriving Chevrolet agency, rose from state senator to Governor (1949-53). Wary of big government, McKay trimmed operations at Interior, incurred the wrath of trigger-sensitive public-power supporters, none more relentless than his fellow Oregonian Senator Wayne Morse who beat him handily in the 1956 Senate race...
Whiplash Currents. Why does Mizoguchi hate the Golden Temple? Novelist Mishima answers in many ways, none completely successful. The gist of it is that Japan, Author Mishima implies, has been hemmed in to the point of impotence by the worship of ancestors, ritual and beauty. In this sense, Temple belongs to recent, agonizing reason-why literature, in which Japanese writers are still covertly psychoanalyzing the loss of World War II. Mizoguchi is both poor and common, and Temple champions a kind of cultural revolt of the masses, with its rejection of all that is feudal and aristocratic. There...