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...about May 1," he says, "I knew I was never going to make a May 15 deadline. I got page proofs on May 9, and I had to start tearing them up and rewriting." The last words were added on the evening of June 8-a scant two months before publication. Even if the scandal had come fully to light before the election-and Nixon had reacted to it by ordering a thorough housecleaning of his Administration-White maintains that the President's popular majority would not have fallen below 55%. Perhaps so, but the reader wonders whether White...
South Koreans had scant cause to rejoice. Three years of war had left more than 500,000 Southerners dead and millions without homes; more than $3 billion in damage had been inflicted on the South, and its capital, Seoul, had changed hands four times, leaving it a jumbled pile of rubble. This week, 20 years after the signing of the armistice, South Koreans had many things to celebrate. U.S. Secretary of State William Rogers, on a three-day visit to Seoul last week, put his finger on it when he told his hosts that "the accomplishments you have achieved...
...example cited by the British of America's permissive attitude toward the Soviets was the performance of Secretary of State William Rogers at the Helsinki conference. Britons tartly note that Rogers made scant mention of the need for freer movement of people; they disparagingly compare his mild remarks to the tough stand taken by British Foreign Secretary Sir Alec Douglas-Home. "It is as if," reports McWhirter, "the British see a crude trade at work in the U.S.-Soviet détente-something along the lines that Moscow would overlook Watergate if Washington forgave Prague." Says Critic George Steiner...
...some of them offensive to Jew and non-Jew alike. For 35 years the Board of Deputies of British Jews, Britain's equivalent to the American B'nai B'rith, has tried to persuade lexicographers to change certain definitions in dictionaries. It has had scant luck with the editors of the magisterial Oxford English Dictionary, the most complete and authoritative record in existence of what English is and has been. Next month Marcus Shloimovitz, a 67-year-old textile salesman from Manchester, will take the argument one step further -to the High Court of Justice...
...Most experts blame Koslov for trying to force the TU-144 through maneuvers better suited to a fighter than an airliner. The real question, though, was not what caused the disaster but what effect it would have on the development of the SST. The French and British have had scant success in selling their enormously expensive Concorde (cost: $46 million apiece). The Russians clearly had hoped that the Paris show would boost the TU-144, which is not only cheaper ($23 million including spare parts) but also more economical to operate. That hope went down with the plane. It will...