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...With only 5.3% of the total world population, Americans drive almost 40% of the world's motor vehicles. There is a car for almost every single licensed driver: 120 million, vs. 143 million. Americans use their cars for work and play; they eat in them, sleep in them, pray in them, see movies in them, even make love in them. Some of the country's largest cities, among them Los Angeles and Houston, could scarcely exist without the automobile...
When a close Carter aide found out that the President was going to Washington's National Cathedral to pray with the families of the hostages, he knew instinctively that the U.S. would not for the time being assert its power in any way that might jeopardize the hostages. For months Carter resisted using the rescue plan devised by his National Security experts. He was consumed by fear of losing individual lives in such an operation. The hostage crisis was incorporated into his political campaign, and from the Rose Garden he sounded the theme of peace, noting proudly that...
...Physical examinations. Welcome to University "Health" Services. Pray that this is the last time you have to go there...
Baseball winds down to the last third of the season, and fans all over Boston are bemoaning the Sox' sagging prospects. But before we get wrapped up in self-indulgence, let's pray for Houston fireballer J. Rodney Richard. Anyone who ever saw Richard hurl his whistling fastball into the dead of a summer night (actually, it was often difficult to see) knows that he provided one of the great thrills in sports anywhere, only to be obscured nationally by the small amount of attention the Astros received. It is a sobering throught that an athlete so talented...
...call "the second Long Walk." For many caught on the wrong side of the meandering new line, life is about to turn into a latter-day Palestinian partition story. Some traditionalists have refused to go, despite a substantial offer of resettlement money. "I live inside four mountains, and I pray to them," says Navajo Katherine Smith, 60, who spent a night in jail after firing over the heads of workers erecting a partition fence near her home at Big Mountain. "We're old folks. We live on our land. We don't know about white...