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...seemed, did most of the country. The speech was pure Carter-simple, direct, yet shrewd. Envious Republicans could find little to fault. "He was folks, and folks is in," said an insider at the Republican National Committee. "I hate to say it, but from a purely analytical point of view, I loved it." Even so, the R.N.C. asked networks for equal time. In California, a party official said, "We've gotten some complaints on the phone about this. People ask whether we're going to challenge the President on the need to conserve energy or his pledge...
India's Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, 59, is a shrewd tactician who gambles only on sure things. Last month, to the astonishment of her 620 million countrymen, she suddenly relaxed the emergency regulations under which Indians had been living for 18 months, released dozens of leading political prisoners from detention and announced that the country's long-postponed elections would be held in mid-March. By last week Mrs. Gandhi could wish that she had left bad enough alone. Within a span of three days, the opposition staged a vigorous reincarnation and one of her most respected political...
...Strong, Proud, Culturally Cohesive. The trend began with the Lyndon Johnson years and the rise of militant blacks who scorned the devastated-victim theory as unworthy and abject. The Moynihan report was rejected, if not disproved. Historian Herbert Gutman began work on the view of the black family as shrewd, strong, not nearly as weakened as it had seemed. The extended family had resources unsuspected by whites...
UNGARO, on an Oriental jag, splashed landscape prints across many of his skirts. Exotic evening dresses were modernistic geometric renderings of the kimono, with wide sashes at the waist and necklines that sometimes slashed to the sash. A shrewd departure, considering that 20% of haute couture clients nowadays are Japanese...
...against a dramatically perfect antagonist. In the former role they have, as the contest announcer endlessly calls him, "the one and only" Arnold Schwarzenegger, 29, an Austrian-born U.S. citizen, six times winner of this title and anxious to retire on the seventh victory. A cool, shrewd and boyish charmer, he exudes the easy confidence of a man who has always known he will be a star of some kind (and who could, if this movie takes off, become a multimedia presence of some force). He is contrasted with Louis Ferrigno, 24, a Brooklynite trained...