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...were labeled "informal gatherings for nonpolitical reasons." Noting that everyone at the summit was willing to compromise his religious obligations for the sake of the talks' success, an Israeli participant explained, "If a Jew is aboard a ship which begins listing, what is the first thing he throws overboard? The answer is his prayer shawl and phylacteries. That is what has happened here at Camp David...
Such ideas would make a shambles of most American sports pro grams, geared as they are to encouraging youngsters to test themselves and develop skills through competition. Not to worry, says Orlick: "Those kinds of games will always be around. It's just that we've gone overboard on competitiveness, aggressiveness and the 'me' ethic...
Orlick has a point. Little League fathers who abuse their kids for striking out are surely grotesque. So are football coaches who risk crippling a youngster to win a game. But some athletic supervisors see no reason to go overboard in the opposite direction. Says Roswell Merrick, executive secretary of the National Association for Sport and Physical Education in Washington, D.C.: "I can't go the Orlick route. That's extreme. You want to continue to challenge kids. Sure you want to cooperate and have fun, but you never want to not keep score." With proper supervision...
...airplanes and helicopters that whizzed by in salute and formed an honor guard to escort them the rest of the way. One plane carried the three balloonists' wives, who waved frantically and blew kisses to their husbands. By this time, the adventurers had tossed most of their ballast overboard, including the computers that had helped them navigate and much of the elaborate radio gear that they had used to keep in close touch with monitors back on land...
...drawings, but came away emptyhanded. "The prices were very high," he said. "Not too high for me, but for the pictures." When Zurich Dealer Walter Feilchenfeldt, bidding for a German museum, paid $1,177,600 for a small watercolor by Albrecht Dtirer, reporters asked if he had not gone overboard. He answered coolly: "It went more or less according to plan." Said Sherman Lee, director of the Cleveland Museum...