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...unusually successful in selling his son on the joys of acquiring and applying knowledge. At about age twelve, Richard was the youngest radio repairman in Far Rockaway, an oceanside community on New York's Long Island. The gifted problem solver breezed through high school math and went on to stir up M.I.T. and Princeton, where the inverse proportion between his mental capacities and his social skills soon became obvious. The book's title is taken from the dean's wife's remark after she asked the young graduate student if he wanted cream or lemon...
...final admonition to the Socialist convention, in which he declared: "It is absolutely essential to avoid turning back, to avoid the reaction sought by the right, which would bring this country economic traumas and social shocks." Fabius asked, "Does this country really want the right to come back?" To stir combative Socialist spirits, the Premier challenged two of the opposition leaders, Neo-Gaullist Paris Mayor Jacques Chirac and center-right former Premier Raymond Barre, to television debates. Both declined. With a semblance of party unity restored, delegates could agree on at least one common purpose. As left-wing Socialist Deputy...
COMPARABLE worth advocates are shouting louder than ever. Strikers at Yale created a national stir last month by demanding that the government and the university recognize their claim to equal pay for work which, by some standard yet undeveloped, would be judged similar. Soon-to-be Massachusetts Sen. John F. Kerry has wholeheartedly endorsed the movement toward national legislation requiring businesses to institute comparable worth pay scales. The concept sounds good, but then so did Communism...
...reacting quickly and massively," said Richard Schweiker, the former Senator and Department of Health and Human Services Secretary who now runs the American Council of Life Insurance. The life and health insurers have bought $ 1 million worth of TV ads to stir opposition to taxing fringe benefits (one ad shows a flock of birds circling around and pecking away at a loaf of bread). The Massachusetts Legislative Council for Older Americans is preparing a nationwide call for mass meetings, parades and a march on Washington to resist Medicare cuts. Vows a spokesman for the Veterans of Foreign Wars: "If they...
...stir city people into accepting the new system and to forestall conservative party bosses from crippling it, Peking is pushing the Sichuan city of Chongqing, one of the largest metropolises in China, as a kind of municipal role model. Buying from whatever domestic or international markets they choose, Chongqing's leaders in the past year have doubled business activity. If such reforms can succeed in Chongqing, the government seems to be saying, they can work anywhere in China...