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...trace tardiness and punctuality-like almost everything else-back to childhood. The person who is habitually late may be rebelling against his parents and, by extension, against all authority, especially the authority of the clock. For him lateness can be a covert expression of his aggression. The compulsive clock watcher, on the other hand, has the same desire to rebel; unlike the latecomer, he suppresses it and submits to authority. Freud himself had a particular fear of traveling (known as Reisefieber) and usually showed up at railroad stations too early. The underlying reason, according to his biographer. Analyst Ernest Jones...
...muses: "What I want is just to figure out what I've hit on. Some day a man will walk into my office as ghost or beast or ghost-beast and walk out as a man, which is to say sovereign wanderer, lordly exile, worker and waiter and watcher." Underlying the satire is a rueful equanimity and a lingering hope, one sometimes found in both Catholics and Southerners, that there may be a point to the working and watching, that there may be one day a kingdom for the exile...
...midweek, mission controllers at the Kazakhstan cosmodrome succeeded in raising the craft's orbit to 166 miles by 161 miles, apparently by firing Salyut's on-board rockets. Still, Veteran Space Watcher Heinz Kaminski of West Germany's Bochum Observatory calculated that the boost would keep Salyut alive only for another seven weeks at the most -enough time for more docking attempts but too short a life-span for setting up a working space station...
...Chinese saying: "The contented man, though poor, is happy; the discontented man, though rich, is sad." One reason why the average Chinese appears happy is that the wide disparities of wealth that lasted into the 1950s have disappeared. Wong Bing-wong, TIME'S veteran China watcher in Hong Kong, summed it up this way: "Mao's promise is nothing more than an experiment to make China the poor man's paradise. But first of all, he has to make it a virtue to be poor, which is exactly what he is trying...
When the invitation was first issued, few U.S. newsmen bothered to try for visas to accompany the table tennis team, and with good reason. For years, veteran China watchers had become used to requesting visas via periodic cables to Peking and never receiving so much as an answer from the Foreign Ministry. Most had dropped the practice in recent years, assuming it a futile exercise. One of the few to renew their visa requests was NBC's John Rich, who left Shanghai just ahead of Mao's forces in 1949, and has been China watching from Tokyo since...