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...this point it's still hard to predict with certainty the outcome of tomorrow's election. Moynihan, who began the campaign with an estimated 13 percentage point advantage over his incumbent opponent, has watched his lead shrink to a mere four to six points though the most recent polls show him making a comeback. Since the polls have a three-point margin of error, the campaign would seem to be a horse race, if not a dead heat...
...reverie about a future when the American machine has rusted to a halt. The nation resembles some medieval terra incognita. Bandit barons rule its regions. Manhattan is an ancient ruin reclaimed by vegetation. The Chinese have become the world's most advanced civilization. They have even learned to shrink themselves to the size of egg rolls to conserve natural resources...
Projections yesterday indicated that the 46-seat majority of Mr. Schmidt's Social Democratic Party and its governing coalition partner, the Free Democratic Party, would shrink in the lower house of the German parliament by only six to ten seats, considerably less of a loss than had been expected...
Compatriot--it sounded so musical yet so forlorn. I shrink from recalling that greeting because it hangs in my memory like a portent of betrayal. I hope it really meant that hope is possible. Already the man had culled suspicion in a stolidly bourgeois farming couple as he pressed for workers' movements, and in a spurt of desperation and elation, invoked Che Guevara's name. I guess he'll learn...
...most salient fact about the newest wave of tennis players is that more than half of them are women, and the name of the game that has done most to turn the simple teaching pro into a combined guru, shrink, social worker, friend and sounding board is mixed doubles. Of course, mixed doubles?a man and a woman partnered against another man and woman team?has always been part of the game of tennis. And much of U.S. tennis, whether singles or doubles, is still largely played men v. men, women v. women. But in monosex tennis, the stresses...