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...colors called natural vinyl and natural nylon. Considering nature's own glaring penchant for diverse and gaudy colors, it is illogical that any anemic shade should be called (as convention calls it) natural. And it is preposterous to put that label on synthetic stuff. If man-made plastics possess a natural color, then it is fair to ask: What is the natural color of a Buick...
...players aren't like most unions. Because they possess extremely rare skills, the pro gridders can put forward a much tougher bargaining position than most industrial workers. It's easier to replace a Pittsburgh steel worker than a Pittsburgh Steeler. Moreover, the players are a small, relatively homogeneous group whose individual experiences in relating to management are quite similar, all these factors contribute to the remarkable solidarity of their union...
...propaganda official in the short-lived Hungarian revolutionary regime of 1919, so he has the authority to rewrite the nation's folklore. In his revised version, the frogs croak so loudly in unison that they frighten less organized animals away. Says Grau: "A society which does not possess its people's dreams is not a society in control of itself...
Some peace activists are dismayed that the draft does not flatly rule out all use of nuclear weapons. They also object to its assertion that it is "marginally justifiable" to possess nuclear weapons in a "deterrence" policy, so long as disarmament talks are proceeding in earnest. But both points essentially reflect positions that Pope John Paul took in a statement to the United Nations last month. Remarked one source closely acquainted with the project: "It is unlikely that the U.S. bishops will be inclined to go further than the Holy Father." What other revisions the bishops as a whole...
...take place between lesser nuclear powers outside Europe, but that such a war is perhaps not as likely as we might imagine. We haven't talked about proliferation, but one of the great fears that people have about the spread of nuclear weapons into states that don't possess them at the moment is that the conditions that have made for the nuclear peace between the United States and the Soviet Union will not [occur] elsewhere. Perhaps the most intriguing question of all is what will be the world's reaction to the second nuclear war? Will the next nuclear...