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...between eyes and eyebrows had grown auspiciously longer; meanwhile, once cold eyes had assumed remarkable warmth. George McGovern's mouth, however, was a disaster-too weak and narrow for a winner. Asano reconfirmed his diagnosis with palmistry. Sure enough, enlarged photos of the Nixon hands showed an unmistakably straighter head line, which begins between the thumb and index finger and runs across the palm...
...Henry Ford runs for his cars. They came from the families that Polaroid tells about at Christmas time, a little overweight and a little overhappy. They arrived in Hart, Schaffner & Marx, with burnt orange by Arrow. Their jaws seemed firmer, teeth bigger and whiter, complexions clearer, shoulders wider, backs straighter than the Democrats', and they had handshakes likes vises. Wandering across the convention floor was like strolling down Main Street with some side excursions up its suburban companion, Elm Street. There was the clean fragrance of Mennen's Skin Bracer and the soft clucks of mothers with their glasses hanging...
...Governor, who still opposes any kind of controls. Such is the lingering influence of the frontier that not even a harrowing brush with death will cause one of its sons to lay down his arms or urge others to do so. Never mind that the maniac shoots faster and straighter. The gun is still potent as symbol-and all too often as fact...
...another Harvard dealer, who has become inactive this year, has a different theory. He said overall drug use at Harvard has declined not because freshmen and sophomores are so worldly but because they are "in general much straighter than the classes before them... so calm, jockish, and wonkish...
...telling anomaly of the 1967 Middle East war is that Israel, in spite of capturing vast stretches of Arab territory, actually ended up with a border 68 miles shorter than before the fighting. Reason: the present de facto lines are straighter. They are also much easier for Israel to defend. In any peace negotiation, therefore, a crucial question will be how much of this occupied territory Israel will be willing to relinquish and how much it will insist on retaining to preserve border security. TIME Jerusalem Bureau Chief Marsh Clark made a threeday, 465-mile tour along Israel...