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...reputed aphrodisiac vitamin E. Even better are "limited doses of dry wines." Or for a special lift turn on suitably sensual, rhythmically erotic background music such as Ravel's Boléro and Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring. If all else fails, why not shudder a little with an electric vibrator, used sparingly, of course, so that "a woman will not become more attracted to it than to her husband...
Whatever the outcome of the case lodged against him, the indictment of John Connally in the milk-fund scandal last week inspired a small shudder in Washington, a fear for what might have been. So much has happened in the past nine months that it is almost forgotten that Richard Nixon's first choice to succeed Spiro Agnew as his Vice President was not Gerald Ford but Connally. To contemplate the indictment of the Vice President, or even merely the suspicion of charges aired, in the same week that articles of impeachment were voted against the President...
...possibility that Lisbon might find some accommodation with black guerrillas and break the solid front of white governments in the southern half of the continent. Rhodesia's position might become untenable if Mozambique turned hostile and its lifeline to the sea were broken; South Africa could only shudder at the possibility of unfriendly black governments on its northern borders. To forestall that possibility, Johannesburg might even send its efficient military into both territories. "We cannot make big concessions here, even if Lisbon orders them," one Portuguese official in Mozambique argues. "If we did, the South Africans would be across...
...when General Patton liberated it, and nearby when Gandhi was assasinated. Unlike almost every other woman photographer, she does not focus primarily on people. A whole series depicts powerful, moving machines. Her portraits all seem calculated to swallow you with merciless eyes that don't see and make you shudder in pain . . . "The living dead of Buchenwald;" "Gold miners, Nos. 1139 & 5122, Johannesburg...
Watergate has harmed business's image. "I shudder to think what a public-opinion survey taken today would score on business motives and integrity. Now on top of all this, the energy crisis raises doubts as to how good business is in planning its own sphere." Goodman also criticized retailers for selling shoddy products and ignoring employees' needs to find meaning in their work. If business is again to become "a creative force in our lives," Goodman concluded, it must learn that "what's good for people is good for business...