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...opponents, the roly-poly uncle of his country dunking in the Yangtze. But Americans had learned to be comfortable with Mao. So long as he lived, China would not be especially friendly; neither would it be overly hostile. Now there is apprehension about which way the country may tilt. Mao's death was like the toppling of a giant, enigmatic idol, and nobody can yet foresee the repercussions...
...support will draw partly from Carter's liberal electorate and could hurt the Democratic nominee in a close election. A nationwide Gallup poll, taken from Aug. 6 to Aug. 9, gave McCarthy 6% of the vote. That figure could be larger in some crucial Northern states-enough to tilt them out of the Democratic column. In California, a Mervin Field poll, taken between July 24 and Aug. 3, gave McCarthy 7% of the vote...
Neither Rapaport nor Riggio can yet fully explain such effects, but they think that in successful transplants there apparently has been a tilt in the balance of immune cells toward those that tolerate specific foreign tissue rather than reject it. In short, the immunological blunderbuss can be replaced by a more accurate biochemical rifle...
Sutton robbed banks and engineered his elaborate escapes because that is where the applause was. He was born in Brooklyn's Irishtown at the turn of the century, and there was a point in his teens when a slight tilt of circumstance might have sent him-street-wise and nervy-into one of the gaudier branches of lawyering. He went into armed robbery instead. He would appear at a bank door, wearing the uniform of a messenger or a cop, after the help had begun to arrive but before the doors opened to customers. A colleague or two would...
Carter's proposals, in some important aspects, do not differ radically from the Administration's approach in the Middle East, for Kissinger privately concedes that his shuttle diplomacy has probably achieved as much as it can. But Carter definitely seems to tilt toward the Israelis, rather than attempt to be evenhanded, as the Administration has tried to be since the 1973 war. At Elizabeth, for instance, the candidate talked of an "absolute assurance of Israel's survival and security." Even here, however, the difference between Carter and the Administration is primarily one of emphasis; for example, President...