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...laboratory conditions, with the same discouraging results. "Not only does a piece of work expand to fill the time available," Aronson notes, "but once it has expanded it continues to require more time." He hopes that his explorations of human work habits may explain why and how people fall prey to procrastination. Meantime, he has started giving himself firm three-hour deadlines to prepare his lectures...
...when the fine print was examined. Though more than 200,000 ground combat troops would be taken out by the end of 1970 under the Clifford plan, about 300,000 men in ground, air and naval support units would remain indefinitely thereafter. Without infantry protection, they would be prey to the enemy, totally dependent on South Vietnamese units. This approach is unacceptable to Nixon on both military and political grounds. The implication was that, except perhaps for token remnants, the Nixon plan amounted to total withdrawal. As word of the White House meeting began to get around Capitol Hill...
...like the funeral of a father." Then Petrosian rallied. Baffling Spassky with his impenetrable defenses, he tied the score at 6 to 6. For the next six games, the contest was a standoff; one expert described it as a battle between "the young tiger who jumps on his prey and the old crocodile who waits for the right moment for the decisive blow." Then, in the crucial 19th game, Spassky quickly went to the attack and, with a flurry of brilliant closing moves, crushed the old crocodile...
...frequency sound projector submerged in 60 ft. of water on the ocean floor. To any carnivorous fish within earshot, the signals probably seemed similar to the noises made by other fish when they are feeding, being attacked or under other conditions of stress. Excited by the apparent proximity of prey, the sharks and other predators greedily converged on the sound projector...
...newspaper humorists. Although a shade less consistent than the Washington Post's Art Buchwald, Hoppe at his best is unbeatable. His special talent is to hold a mirror to life and let the reverse image reflect the absurdity of it all. Gentle and easygoing, Hoppe, 44, disarms his prey with kindness and smothers it with laughter...