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...Administration gradually increased the pressure for a boycott in the wake of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, alarmed officials of the U.S. Olympic Committee tried in vain to stop the campaign, pleading that sports should not be used to promote political ends. But Carter, appearing on Meet the Press at the beginning of the week, put his full prestige behind the policy. Said he: "Regardless of what other nations might do, I would not favor sending an American Olympic team to Moscow while the Soviet invasion troops are in Afghanistan" (see box). He set a Feb. 20 deadline for Soviet...
...House floor there seemed to be chunks and pieces of a national mosaic but nothing holding them together. New Jersey's Millicent Fenwick was most animated when Carter mentioned women's rights. Republicans stirred themselves only slightly above polite applause when Carter promised to continue his vain efforts to balance the budget. Each had his or her interest by which to measure the message, but few seemed to bury their special sensitivities for something we used to call the national interest. That was always a vague and imperfect cry for unity, but it brought a hoarse admission...
...vain. Inevitable, inexorable, creeps forward the tide of men's despair in this petty world of fact ("There was a flood in Boston in 1835, maybe there will be again"). And all will be in vain, gurp, forever ("If it was 1835 I wouldn't have to go on the unicycle to Revere Beach, I could drown in my rooms...
...worst memory of my life is of the day I attended a general-admission rock concert at a stadium that held 75,000 people but admitted 150,000. As the afternoon wore on, the crowd inside became uncontrollable. Walking back from the rest rooms, I tried in vain to return to my friends. I found myself unable to touch the ground, and swaying with the people pushed up next to me. Suddenly, I could not get any air. As hard as I tried, I could not get one breath in me. I became panic-stricken. People helped...
...basic strength and well-being of the United States is not being built on increased nuclear weapons, or the MX missile which President Carter has had to promise in the hope--which may turn out to be in vain--of assuring the passage of a treaty which those truly concerned with disarmament on the Left attack as much too limited in scope. It is now of such overriding symbolic importance, however, that its defeat in the Senate would seem to me to unravel what little fabric of international comity there exists, and possibly to force the Chinese and the Soviet...