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Even as the negotiations for a peace treaty between Egypt and Israel appeared to flounder in Washington, the Nobel Peace Prize Committee last week announced in Oslo that this year's award would go jointly to Egypt's Anwar Sadat and Israel's Menachem Begin. Few Western observers would quarrel with the selection of Sadat, whose courageous mission to Jerusalem last November had set the stage for the tumultuous peace drive that followed. But in its attempt at even-handedness in naming Begin to share the honor and the $173,700 in prize money, the committee (see box) made...
...admits that he "never had anything in common" with the Howes, says publicly that the increased assessment of his property was justified: "[In my neighborhood] I think it was just my house and a couple of others at the time (that had an increased assessment), but I can't quarrel with anyone, you know...
...winning ear. The eerie whoosh of a theremin, a primitive electronic instrument, signals Alice's alarming growth. Tempos slow down and shoot forward, keys slip in and out of place with perfect illogic. An orchestral fugue that accompanies the jury's strident deliberations builds from a contrapuntal quarrel among strings to a glorious jumble of trumpet snorts, tuba blats and whinnying violins. And, near the end, there is a lovely lullaby that evokes Carroll's affection for the real-life Alice, little Alice Pleasance Liddell - and everyone's nostalgia for the past...
...young and a lessening of parental authority. Industrialization allowed a boy to earn a man's wage and end dependence on his parents at a younger age. Still, says Bahr, there is no evidence that the generation gap is wider today than in 1924: parents and their offspring quarrel about the same amount, and mostly about the same subjects...
Once it passes the Senate, the natural gas bill will pass blithely to the House, where the machinations of Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr. (D-Mass.) will virtually guarantee passage. O'Neill is on the side of the Administration again after a quarrel with Carter this summer. And anyway, a nervous election-year Congress, itching to go back and tell the home folks that it has done something about energy, is anxious to pass it and be done with the whole mess...