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Henry Kissinger dominated world affairs as the most remarkable Secretary of State in modern times, but the magic was fading. The tenuous peace he had engineered in Viet Nam, for which he won the Nobel Prize in 1973, unraveled when the Communists triumphed in Southeast Asia. Kissinger's laboriously constructed policy of détente was showing considerable wear as critics at home and abroad?not least of them the great Soviet writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn?complained that the Russians were exploiting the arrangement. But his critics were unable to present cogent alternatives to detente, and much of the opposition was based...
Things are tough all over. In New York, the brokers are trading pieces of worthless paper that represent people's life savings for pieces of worthless paper that represent Gerry Ford's tenuous goodwill towards the Big Banks. In London, people are asking for a "table away from the windows." At Harvard, Henry Rosovsky is about to conduct the largest experiment in Ice Age studies ever. Everyone seems about ready to pull out the plug. Worst of all, this winter we can't shift all the blame on to the Arabs...
...game opened with a scoring drought, and after the first six minutes the Tufts five held a tenuous 1-0 lead. With two minutes left in the opening stanza, the Jumbos had stretched the margin to six points. But in a sign of things to come, the Crimson picked up the pace, and in the waning moments of the half, closed to within two points. Kathy Fulton knotted the score at intermission with a forty foot bomb at the buzzer...
...through, Narrator Archie realizes the identity of the criminal and concedes, "You probably knew a while back." He is, in his own term, "grandstanding"; even veteran aficionados will be hypnotized by this witty, complex mystery. For lagniappe, Stout provides a delicious red herring-the case's tenuous connection to Watergate. Says Wolfe: "I would have given all my orchids-well, most of them -to have [had] an effective hand in the disclosure of the malfeasance of Richard Nixon." He announces that he drafted but did not send a letter to Leon Jaworski, offering his services. Pity the mail never...
...although the social scientist readily admits that many Harvard faculty members feel teaching women is a "waste of time," he stressed that his report's findings will not exacerbate the already tenuous position of women here...