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According to the rules of the game, the man who fails to vote has no justification for complaining about the result. The conclusion is plain. If one wishes to criticize the government during the next four years (and who would give up that priceless privilege?) voting is the prerequisite. But with the choice one of a sphinx, a knee-breached diplomat, or a great wind there is none who will not be eager to choose...
Carter's men credit the change to his time in office. "There is no doubt in my mind that experience is the most priceless asset of all. Every day you do better," says White House Counsel Lloyd Cutler, the lawyer who is the only Washingtonian to have cracked the President's inner circle...
...holds its annual winter meeting, the Fountainbleau is where the leaders stay. No one knows how much they spend on rooms, but a good guess is that many are sunning on personal terraces. There's always been this streak in organized labor--The Wobblies includes one priceless still of Samuel Gompers, the first George Meany, in top hat and tails. But the difference between 1915 and the present, and the sad message of The Wobblies, is that today there is no opposition--and no higher vision--within the labor movement...
Virginie and Gerard Ferry, co-owners of L'Orangerie, maintain that the priceless-menu policy-which they have no intention of discontinuing-is not discrimination, but courtesy. It enables the guest to be treated as such, and allows the host to be the only one concerned with money, whatever the host's gender. Claims Ferry: "If a lady makes the reservation in her name, she'll get the menu with prices...
...replies Gloria Allred, the feminist lawyer who prepared Bick and Becker's suit. "Restaurants are the last bastions of rituals having to do with rigid roles for men and women," says she. The priceless menu implies "that women will always be taken care of if they're with a man, and that we shouldn't be bothering our pretty little heads about the price of dinner." Another ritual that Allred abhors is having the man taste the wine, which "suggests that women can't appreciate fine wine." As the general manager of another stylish Los Angeles...