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Like the characters of In Their Wisdom, circling their pot of gold, Snow still twitches with what he calls the "tic of hope." He concludes with a phrase that a dozen years ago would have brought cries of "Banal old fogy!" from all the Angry Young Men. "The worst doesn't always happen," he writes. Today, in a world that will settle for less, the words mean more-even ring with a certain Colonel Blimp gallantry. How Snow readers have changed! How Snow has stayed the same! ·Melvin Maddocks
...reasonably handsome man in his 40s -wavy hair that is thinning, a paunch that is growing. In the office he is "cordial and considerate to just about everybody." He has "this wretched habit" of acquiring the characteristics of the last person he has been talking to-a stutter, a tic, even a limp...
...nervous tic afflicting the Tokyo grade school girl was so severe that her entire body shook every time she twitched. When she was finally brought to Tokyo Psychiatrist Soichi Hakozaki, the diagnosis was surprisingly simple. The girl was lefthanded, and her mother had been trying to make her use her right hand by binding the left with tape. Two days after mom's therapy was stopped, the tic disappeared...
...South Viet Nam's President Diem in 1963; urging that Washington's Brookings Institution be fire-bombed as a diversionary tactic to cover a raid to seize some politically damaging documents; leaking information to LIFE for a story in 1970 that helped defeat Maryland's Demoera tic Senator Joseph Tydings; proposing that demonstrators posing as antiwar activists disrupt the funeral services for J. Edgar Hoover in May 1972, which would have outraged Hoover's many supporters and hurt McGovern...
...Alaskan oil pipeline, deregulation of natural-gas prices at the wellhead - a step that would surely force prices sharply upward - and the funding of further research into coal gasification and other new energy sources. Finally, Nixon urged Congress to take action on a whole series of domes tic programs, including the better-schools bill and the better-communities bill, two revenue-sharing measures that would transfer from federal to local authorities much of the decision-making authority in federal school and community-development programs...