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...gripped the podium tightly, his features uncustomarily taut. He was forceful and self-assured. Yet his knowledge of the specifics of government did not seem markedly superior to Carter's. Carter would seem to have greater potential but be a greater risk. Ford would seem to be safer but less exciting...
Princeton and the Ford Foundation, which have traditionally performed very well, invest only 20 per cent in bonds, Putnam said. Harvard, by investing 40 per cent, took advantage of both the good bond market this past fiscal year and the security that the safer fixed income securities offer...
...lists. Half a dozen pros have been joined to players in holy matrimony, and the groups average about five or six marriages a year between the clients themselves. Commenting on the swingles system, former U.S. Information Agency Director Carl Rowan, an avid Washington tennis player, observes, "It's a safer and healthier way of getting a date, but it sure costs a lot more than buying three martinis." Confided a single girl at a New York City tennis club: "It's not like being picked up in a singles bar. At least you have tennis in common...
...terrorists are hard to get to know. Ordinarily, they keep a low profile. When they do call attention to themselves, it is usually too late for their victims to strike up a lasting acquaintance. Fiction, on the whole, is a better place than real life to meet mad bombers-safer and, as The Family Arsenal demonstrates, more...
Here we are in Sodom on Hudson a few days ahead of the convention, and I've never felt safer in my life. You know how we worried that Jimmy Carter may not have brought love and goodness to New York City and we delegates to the Democratic Convention might get into so much trouble that we'd turn Republican. Well, it just isn't like that. Every day of the convention the delegates and alternates-more than 5,000 of us-will be taken in buses from our hotels to Madison Square Garden. Then, after...