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...While the Kremlin remains basically committed to detente and arms limitation, Russian leaders seem to have embarked on a period of testing in foreign relations, designed to take the measure of Jimmy Carter and the incoming U.S. Administration-especially since Carter in some of his campaign speeches urged a tougher U.S. policy toward the Soviets. A senior American Kremlin watcher feels that the new Administration "will be starting on far cooler terms with the Soviet Union than we would have thought even a year...
Layzer said that most adherents to the heredity view have "some political ax to grind," citing their support of tougher immigration laws and other "exclusionary legislation." He said that "these people believe the I.Q.-heredity correlation is high. Nothing will shake that belief. They believe those numbers...
Even if Ford wins an election mandate for the next four years and the Democratic majority in Congress is somewhat diminished, he will have a hard time because the Democrats will have fresh and tougher leadership on the Hill. The Speaker of the House will no longer be the amiable Carl Albert but Massachusetts' Thomas ("Tip") O'Neill, 63, a shrewd liberal who will more aggressively challenge the White House. In the Senate, the favorite to replace Montana's scholarly and restrained Mike Mansfield as majority leader is West Virginia's Robert Byrd...
...Harvard cross-country team ran its best race this season in yesterday's Heptagonals meet, but the opposition proved tougher, as Princeton edged the Crimson out of first place, 65-71, thus snaring the top slot in the Ivy League track listings...
...PRODUCTION of this play which features a Gwendolen who's tougher than her august Aunt Augusta. But if Clapp's ingenue is enough to make a young man's blood run cold, Victoria Allan's Lady Bracknell is strikingly unintimidating. Hers is the best character part in a play filled with nothing but. As the grim dowager symbol of the aristocracy in rout, Allan actually manages to be boring; she plays on the same emotional level throughout, scarcely varying her slow delivery, never rising to farcical peaks of anger or ridiculousness...