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Still, the Brown organization is optimistic. His strategists hope he will place second to Kennedy in the New Hampshire and Massachusetts primaries, and score well in the Minnesota precinct caucus and the Illinois primary. Says Quinn: "If Carter comes in third in Illinois, he's finished." If Kennedy is regarded as too big a spender and Carter as incompetent, guess who will be "a new possibility." If not, as Brown said: "Maybe it will take more than one year. Maybe it will take four years. I'm only 41, and I've got a lot of time...
...interview took place at the Ayatullah's residence in the holy city of Qum and lasted, in all, for about three hours. As a sign of respect for Khomeini, Fallaci decided to wear a chador, the traditional floor-length black veil worn by Muslim women in Iran. "I don't wear blue jeans to interview the Pope," she explained. As it happened, the chador produced the most dramatic moment of the interview. In the midst of several questions about the role of women in an Islamic society, Fallaci charged that the chador was symbolic of the segregation into...
...Emperor of the Central African Republic last month. There is no law prohibiting French politicians from accepting such largesse. The Elysée Palace, in fact, while trying to minimize what it called the "nature and value" of the gifts, did not deny that a "traditional exchange" had taken place. Bokassa also gave diamonds, the weekly said, to Cabinet Ministers Robert Galley and Yvon Bourges, and Giscard's top adviser, René Journiac. Other alleged recipients: Giscard's brother, Business Consultant Olivier, and two of their cousins, Banker François and Finance Official Jacques. Unlike the President...
...hire a team of scientists and technicians and set them to work systematically producing innovations. But his inability to stay within a budget would speedily get him fired from any corporate lab today, if his spectacular untidiness did not discourage the lab from hiring him in the first place...
...filament was thin. But a crucial difference was that Swan stopped with inventing the bulb, while Edison took what would now be called a "systems approach"; he saw that the bulb had to be only one of a whole series of inventions. To make it in the first place, he and his assistants had to produce a more complete vacuum than had ever been known before. Then they had to devise a power-distribution system for lighting the bulbs in millions of homes. In Edison's words: "There was no precedent for such a thing, and nowhere...