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Similarly, in World War II, our leaders wastefully committed massive ground forces in Europe and planned an invasion of southern Japan with a contemplated death toll of over a million American lives after Japan had already been reduced to such military impotence that even without the atom bomb, air attack, naval bombardment and blockade during the fall and winter of 1945-6 would inevitably have brought about her surrender at minimal cost in American blood...
...different," a veteran Brown aide remarked in 1976, when the campaign emphasized the exotic in his personality, capitalizing on people's interest in his outrageous lifestyle and philosophy. The years of misty evocations of Zen consciousness, bachelor pad living, and inviting royalty to brown-bag lunches have taken their toll, however--the image of unorthodoxy that was Brown's greatest asset in 1976 has now become his chief liability. Brown's campaign staff works furiously to dispel the conception of the governor as a "California flake...
...well, the rules of the game are partly at fault, Tatum insists, and he proposes reforms: banning quick slant-in passes that leave receivers little running room, zone defenses that give a Tatum too much time to zero in on his target, and linebacker blitzes that take a heavy toll on quarterbacks. As for the spirit of the game that he so crassly violates, he can hardly be excused. But there are others to share the blame: the Raiders' owners, coaches and fans who pay Jack Tatum to be their "assassin...
...latest mayhem brought the death toll from two years of extremist violence in Turkey to more than 2,500. Eight to ten people have been killed each day since Demirel, 55, became Premier. The combatants in the daily armed street battles are from both extremes. On one side are rightist gangs like the "Gray Wolves," often associated with the National Action Party, an ultraconservative group. On the other are the more numerous leftist, often campus-based, organizations such as the Marxist-Leninist Armed Propaganda Squad and the Turkish Workers and Peasants Liberation Army. There have also been signs, some...
Only a recluse could fail to know somebody who uses less ingenuity in living than in worrying and guarding against subtle hazards. Perhaps the surest sign that the admonitory mood is taking a toll is the fact that Americans have begun to write advice columnists about the problems that all the cautions cause. Warnings about cholesterol in eggs, nitrate in bacon, caffeine in coffee (and, a while back, risky chemicals in even the decaffeinated variety) have sapped the fun out of eating breakfast for some people, it seems. Wrote one such: "I'd try bread and water...