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...tactics: the Public Interest Research Groups raise money on many college campuses through an automatic fee that all students must pay, applying for a refund if they do not wish to be assessed. Yet Nader has sharply assailed the practice of book clubs that send volumes monthly to members unless they ask the clubs in writing...
...jobs at a parts plant outside the Welsh capital of Cardiff. With unemployment at a postwar record of 1.5 million (6.4%), any further increase could jeopardize the government's wage-control agreements with organized labor. Len Murray, Britain's top union leader, warned last week that unless the jobless rate was quickly cut, there would be "a rapid growth of support for radical changes in the government's policies," a threat that could come true next month when Britain's powerful Trades Union Congress holds its annual meeting in Brighton...
...purposes of his instruction, the denigrating voice is designated as Self 1 (read ego), the natural body as Self 2 (read id). Unless you can shut Self 1 up or calm him down, Gallwey contends, Self 2 will be too nervous to play. To help Self 2 devote itself to tennis, Gallwey wisely offers practical exercises on how to relax and watch the ball. Among them: actually trying to see the ball's seams as it approaches; following its trajectory back and forth while imagining it is creating a huge linear, free-form painting in the air. Says...
...still an unstated convention among mixed-doubles men that a male player is never beastly to the woman across the net. When it is broken, reports Ethel Kennedy's tennis pro Bob Graham, male rage is aroused. Says he: "I've never seen men actually come to blows, unless they're playing with their wives." Today, however, more and more women are acquiring the skill to be beastly on their own and to hit hard. "I love to shock men by coming back with a strong overhead," says Debbie Humphreys, the wife of a New Jersey teaching pro. Women, especially...
Lethal Dose. Chekhov's dictum about never showing a gun in the first act unless it is used in the third applies to poisoned pills as well. Jakub's lethal dose leads to a death that cries out to be interpreted as either an accidental murder or a murderous accident. Playing existential detective, Kundera shows how all the major characters are implicated. But despite some amusing farcical turns, the verdict is heavily weighted toward a formulation that amounts to a facile existential copout: we are all murderers...