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...stage-managed ouster by his Kremlin competitors. Unless it is proved that Brezhnev is mortally ill, they believe that he will remain in office at least until the 1976 Communist Party Congress when, as one British foreign office expert put it, he might choose to bow out "in a spasm of glory...
...changes were still to come. Deep within the moon, heat from the slow decay of radioactive elements like uranium and thorium gradually built up, melting the once solid interior rock. Finally, between 3 billion and 4 billion years ago, lava broke through the hard outer crust in a great spasm of volcanic activity, possibly forming some new craters and flooding the great low-lying basins to create the moon's maria...
...presence or absence of content form this magazine is not even debatable. To attempt reading People for information is futile. To read it for entertainment is to define as pleasure an onanistic spasm at the dropping of somebody's name. Gerald Ford in a swimming pool and Raquel Welch in a purple blouse are not very stimulating. And so we reach the question of what the people at Time Inc. think they are offering, and why the people who buy the magazine think it is worth having...
Perhaps because Lent is no longer so austere as it used to be, the European Catholic tradition of carnival time -a brief spasm of bacchanalian indulgence that ends abruptly on Ash Wednesday-has virtually died out in Italy, France and even in Southern Germany. Munich's once-orgiastic Fasching, for instance, has dwindled to a single parade and a few tame costume balls. One area where the annual urge to let it all hang out is as strong as ever is the Rhineland with its century-old tradition of blowing off steam as a form of political expression. Last...
...State sought to get the two sides to stop shooting at each other. After trying vainly to work out a peace formula with the Israeli and Arab Foreign Ministers in New York, where he was conferring with diplomats attending the U.N. General Assembly, Kissinger flew to Washington. In a spasm of telephone calls, he talked to every permanent member of the Security Council. That evening he chaired a meeting of the Washington Special Action Group, a "crisis management" team made up of representatives of the State and Defense departments, the CIA and the National Security Council. But there...