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Nevertheless, Carter, Vance and their colleagues contributed significantly, if not always deliberately, to the atmosphere that made the Sadat-Begin summit possible. Whatever faux pas he committed along the way, the President succeeded in getting two of the principals in the conflict to lift their eyes from procedural details and ponder the prospect of a final, comprehensive settlement. From the outset of his Administration, Carter had made clear that the old step-by-step approach employed so effectively by Henry Kissinger was in danger of becoming a treadmill, and that haggling over credentials, timetables and terminology had become an excuse...
...pure dance." Yet this limited view is not totally stifling, as the dance, a supreme masterpiece of the Russian tradition, contains some of the most exquisitely harmonious choreography ever devised--and some of the most demanding. It is structured something like a concerto, the Swan Queen's solos (or pas-dedeux with the Prince) alternating with ensemble passages for the corps de ballet of swan-maidens...
...meat of Hirsch's argument is simply this: In the pas' people desired shelter, clothing and good to protect themselves from such easily definable physical discomforts as cold, hunger and death. In that non-modern world individuals acted in very predictable fashions. Homo sapiens would do whatever was necessary to avoid the basic physical discomforts that incessantly plagued them...
...round of 73 by Spence Fitzgibbons, which qualifies him for the ECAC shindig on an individual basis. Fitzgibbons birdied the last hole, but Dartmouth's Joe Henley closed out with an eagle to take medalist honors with a 72. Fitzgibbons hit 14 greens in regulation, his only faux pas coming on the twelfth green, which he four-putted. anything close to their mid-season form...
...able to flesh out his two top stories. For Cincinnati Post Sports Editor Tom Tuley, the biggest problem of the evening was getting the ball scores. He fared well by telephoning U.S. cities, but when he called Montreal, everybody at the other end kept saying "On ne parle pas anglais. "He finally called Pittsburgh for the Expo-Pirate figures...