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...wheel test, there was also the avoidance-maneuver test, in which the cars were driven between markers to see how quickly they could swerve to dodge an obstacle without lurching out of control. When the test is performed with the Omni and Horizon, the cars do not begin to veer until speeds approaching 60 m.p.h. Many full-size sedans will do so at much lower speeds. In fact, every car on the highway will do so if it is put through this test at a fast enough speed. If nothing else, the squabble over the Omni and Horizon highlights...
Will Nixon, who has been pronounced politically dead so many times before, be able to rehabilitate himself in the American imagination? Is there sufficient rightward veer in American politics these days to coax along a bit of revisionism about Watergate? If Nixon has by now exhausted the role of American villain, the political Grendel who tape-recorded himself snarling under the bridge, then what role might he still play, if any? An eventual party emeritus, perhaps, grudgingly respected and sought out for his savvy in foreign policy...
...country like the U.S. is not like a speedboat on a lake. It can't veer suddenly to the right or left. It's like a large ship. There's continuity to its course. There's continuity between our Administration's foreign policy and the policy of our predecessors and, indeed, between them and their predecessors...
FILMS, NOVELS and poetry start at one place, follow a consistent course to another and hopefully make a point somewhere along the way. Recorded pop music, however, has chronically suffered from a lack of thematic focus--the aural equivalent of short story collections, pop records often veer crazily from love song to drinking song to torch song to instrumental. As often as not, the only factor holding the individual works together--if, indeed, anything does at all--is stylistic, the musical presence of the performer. An overriding theme must, of necessity, go by the boards; the constraints of the medium...
While Sadat rushed ahead with his plans for the conference, his friends struggled to keep up with him and, some thought, to veer him away from a fatal blunder. Crucial to Sadat is the continued support of Saudi Arabia, which indicated last week that it still backs him despite Riyadh's concern over the damage to Arab unity produced by his recent actions. "We did not support the trip to Jerusalem, but we do support Egypt," Saudi Arabia's Deputy Foreign Minister Abdel Aziz Mansouri told Correspondent Wynn, "and we are very concerned at any action that breaks...