Word: racing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...through the primaries. But he should beware that they could backfire in a general election, when Jews--absent from the Republican primaries--will back the Democratic candidate. Connally has tossed away any possibility for Jewish support, a factor that was crucial to the Republicans' victory in the presidential race of 1972, when many Jews voted conservatively...
...World Food Program, a United Nations agency operating in Bangkok: "I can tell you after what I have seen I am willing to kill myself to get food for these people." Says a diplomat in Thailand: "The Khmers are teetering on the brink of being extinguished as a race. They will perish unless something is done right now and very fast...
...accomplish, but Lessing's premise gives her aeons of time to fill. Scouts from the benign galactic empire Canopus discover a small but promising planet, obviously the young earth, whose denizens include a strain of monkeys beginning to stand on their own two feet. The Canopeans introduce a race of superior creatures to tutor these humanoids and help speed their evolution. Eventually, the planet, called Rohanda, is deemed ready to be locked into the vast, overarching harmony that prevails throughout the domain of Canopus...
...insistently to earth, and the history of Shikasta as seen from Canopus is often, by earthly standards, particularly hamhanded: "For a couple of centuries at least, then, a dominant feature of the Shikastan scene was that a particularly arrogant and self-satisfied breed, a minority of the minority white race, dominated most of Shikasta, a multitude of different races, cultures, and religions which, on the whole, were superior to that of the oppressors." Such polemics alternate with passages of aching poignancy: "The lowest, the most downtrodden, the most miserable of Shikastans will watch the wind moving a plant, and smile...
DIED. George Ryall, 92, racing columnist known for more than five decades as Audax Minor to readers of The New Yorker; in Columbia, Md. A jaunty, tweedy Canadian, Ryall joined The New Yorker in 1926, the magazine's second year of publication. In addition to his spirited race track reports, Ryall expounded on motor cars, polo and men's fashions. He turned in his last column in December...