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...Cora Swanson (Teresa Wright), her husband Theodore, known as Thor (Maurice Copeland), and the spinster sister, Aaronetta (Elizabeth Wilson), who has lived with them for 40 years. Cora feels she can no longer bear this cross. When it develops that Aaronetta was not an inviolate spinster, at least vis-a-vis Thor, summer lightning flashes through the houses...
...fragile equilibrium in the Middle East and Central Asia deteriorates, the position of the U.S. vis-a-vis these areas becomes ever more similar to that of the man faced with the task of holding a dam which is constantly springing new leaks. Our approach has been to stuff these leaks with fistfuls of dollars, or arms, or both: $2.2 billion as an initial installment on the Egyptian-Israeli treaty (Israel is dissatisfied with a $200 million increase over this in credits; President Carter is seeking congressional approval to send an additional $1.1 billion in arms aid to Egypt, while...
...possible danger through a conceivable nuclear confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United States. Endemic instability there was heightened when the Israelis, who had the chance for magnaminity after the Six Day War of 1967, might possibly have created an atmosphere of relatively benign feeling, not only vis-a-vis Egypt, but also vis-a-vis other adversary Arab states, by being willing to trade occupied land and the people in them for peace and secure boundaries. In stead, a non-adversary state, namely Lebanon, has been shattered, and the lack of inventiveness and imagination as well as magnanimity...
Instead there is a lot of talk. Much of it in impenetrable spaceflight jargon. Scanners, deflectors, warp speed, linguacode-words like that are always being barked into the intercom. But it is never to the point: it is hard to decipher where the starship Enterprise stands vis-a-vis the mysterious intruder from outer space. When the crew are not jabbering in technocratese, they are into metaphysics, one of the characteristics of the old Star Trek television show and a major reason for its cult vogue among the half-educated...
...Curia, the Pope asked the Cardinals for proposals to improve its efficiency and harmony vis-á-vis the church in various nations. Despite rumors to the contrary, John Paul plans no big shake-up in structure like that by Paul VI in 1967, and he has kept incumbent officials in place. The secrecy of last week's meeting made it unclear what reforms the Cardinals proposed. Even so, the assembly was the clearest indication yet that the Pope from Poland intends to change the way the Vatican does business...