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...what newspapers tend to call a "veteran observer"-and a fond one at that-the emphasis on jazzy design changes in all these post-mortem announcements has an air of desperation, like Dustin Hoffman in Tootsie: "I can be taller! I can be shorter!" Come now, get hold of yourself; be what you are. The reader has to appreciate more pages, more opinions, but he is not likely to be fooled by a newspaper whose looks have been tinkered with so as to ape a television screen. Besides, the color reception in most papers is uneven. Ever count the number...
...deployments go ahead, Moscow will probably fall back on other threats in addition to a walkout. One is to move new, shorter-range nuclear missiles onto the territories of East Germany and Czechoslovakia. The Kremlin has also said it would put the U.S. under an ill-defined "analogous risk." This might include the use of low-trajectory ballistic missiles, weapons useful for surprise attack, on submarines close to U.S. shores and the deployment of new cruise missiles on Soviet subs (see box). Nonetheless, the Administration remained confident that the Soviets would eventually return to the bargaining table. Said one official...
Victorian writers, observed G.K. Chesterton, "were lame giants; the strongest of them walked on one leg a little shorter than the other." That remark has been amplified by Phyllis Rose in her lively study of five 19th century couples. The title, Parallel Lives, has two meanings: the disparate views of marriage held by husband and wife, and the juxtaposition of twittering romantic expectations and tragic neuroses. Reading Rose's work is like turning a valentine to find graffiti underneath: not a pleasant experience, but a compelling one. The couples could not have been better chosen. Each contains one famous...
...study contends that French workers have foiled the plan by refusing to take pay cuts to go with the shorter hours. That has left companies without new funds to hire additional people. Some European observers argue that such an outcome should have been expected. Says P.O. Klandermans, a social psychologist at Amsterdam's Free University: "Employees may take wage cuts to avoid layoffs, but that is maintaining existing jobs, not creating new ones. I've never heard workers say that they were willing to take home less pay to create new jobs for someone else...
...preparing to do so, another American, an unemployed computer technician named Wayne Dickinson, washed up on the rocks of Ireland in God's Tear, 142 days after setting sail from Point Allerton, Mass. God's Tear, indeed; Dickinson's boat was about 2 in. shorter than Dunlop's. McClean now had two American tiny-tub artists to beat, and earlier this month he succeeded, despite a broken mast in the Bay of Biscay, reaching Portugal in the bobtailed Giltspur, now a mere 7 ft. 9 in. overall. "The more people say a thing...