Word: pols
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...contrary, the French are miserable and inhibited in their lovemaking, according to the recently published La Réalité Sexuelle (375 pages; Laffont; $8). Roger-Pol Droit, 25, and Antoine Gallien, 27, have gathered together 22 vivid tape-recorded interviews from people of different ages and backgrounds-but with similar complaints. "I never thought marriage involved sexual relations," confessed a 42-year-old Marseilles secretary. "She'd always say the same thing: 'I'm going to end up pregnant,' " complained her husband. A 36-year-old librarian from Dieppe said that she had accepted...
Reforming Pol. At the card table O'Neill met and for a while became friends with another poker player of repute-Richard Nixon, then the Vice President. But for all Nixon's reputation -he had won a bundle in the Navy during the war-O'Neill found him lacking. "Nixon was one of the lousiest players I ever played with," Tip remembers. "He didn't follow the cards. He talked too much. But he was an affable and likable guy in that friendly atmosphere, and the other players were nice to him because he was Vice...
When he became party campaign chairman in 1970, O'Neill won the respect of his fellow Democrats by distributing funds fairly, whatever the candidate's state or political philosophy. Old Pol O'Neill also earned points in the House by supporting the reforms of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970, which made public for the first time votes taken in committees and made on amendments offered on the floor. By steadily playing his own cards right, he rose to become party whip in 1971. Then, in October 1972, an airplane carrying Majority Leader Hale Boggs disappeared while...
...left his mind behind on the team bus one day. There was an up-and-coming Texan capitalist--the counter-cultural kind who dresses down to rip you off. He pats your back with one hand, picks your pocket with the other. There was also the budding urban pol. He was one of the nicest but most difficult to live with. To see yourself as a future bureaucrat, a part of you has to have died a bit early in life...
Intrigued by Bracewell's musings, Lunan searched back into the original reports published by Stormer and Van der Pol, who had kept records of the varying intervals between the original signals and their echoes. On the chance that these variations might represent a code, Lunan began to make graphs from them. He used one axis of the graph as a measure of the amount of time each echo was delayed. The other axis indicated the position of each echo in the sequence of echoes. Plotting the points determined by those coordinates yielded no recognizable pattern. But when Lunan reversed...