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...cannot defend homosexuality without name-dropping Apuleius, making sly references to the Spartans, and advising the reader to check his concept of masculinity against circuitous quotations from the Apocrypha (Il Maccabees 4: 7-15). Even in the midst of considering children's literature, the portentous generalization can tempt him: "In the last fifty years we have contributed relatively little in the way of new ideas of any sort. From radar to rocketry, we have had to rely on other societies" etc., etc. Sarcasm betrays him into rhetorical flourishes: Lyndon Johnson is "the Great Khan at Washington"; objection to John...
...Justice Department, the Federal Trade Commission and the Securities and Exchange Commission?have begun investigations of the phenomenon. They are worried that the takeover companies may be creating too much concentration of economic power, that some of them have unsound financing and inadequate management, and that they may tempt many shareholders into trading solid stocks for flossy packages of paper...
...hopes to decelerate the economy gradually, avoiding the kind of overzealous monetary restraint that helped bring on the last real recession in 1959-60 and contributed to Nixon's defeat by John F. Kennedy. The more immediate danger, however, is that any sign of an economic downturn may tempt the Government to let up too soon on the anti-inflation campaign...
Behind the Soviet plan is concern that the region's deadly round of raid and retaliation could draw the U.S. and Russia into a showdown that neither wants. The Russians also want to protect their Arab clients from another military defeat, and have artfully shaped their proposal to tempt-and perhaps confuse-the U.S. as it changes administrations. For the first time, the Soviets do not peremptorily demand that Israel withdraw from its occupied territories before negotiations begin, as the Arabs have always insisted. Instead, the Soviets propose a package that would include Israeli withdrawal-to what lines...
Jackpot. Such rowdy Big Top atmosphere is new to Las Vegas, where the winning casino formula has been to pack in the crowds with the lure of big-name entertainers, then leave the customers with nothing else to tempt them but gambling. Jay Sarno, 47, who two years ago opened the garish, pseudo-Roman Caesar's Palace, is trying a new approach. As principal stockholder of Circus Circus, he is counting on the casino's being so different that everybody who visits Las Vegas will have to stop in once out of plain curiosity. And if the carnival...