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...Washington becomes one big political beehive with the approach of a presidential year," says Fentress. "Everything becomes timed and tooled for Election Day. The rumors get wilder than usual and the ante is raised in that perpetual con game between reporter and news source." The election is 14 wearying months off and there will be plenty of confetti, motorcycles and other hazards along the way. But for those who cover and write about politics, happy times are here again...
...confrontation looks like a scene from the United Nations on one of its wilder days. On one side are the small-nation airlines and their allies-a majority of the membership-which favor retaining lATA's price-fixing power and the relatively high prices that the cartel has set. On the other side are the superpowers, eager for lower fares and resentful of the majority's dominance. Said one big-four negotiator in Montreal: "We're sick and tired of little airlines like Air Afrique telling us what we can charge on routes they...
Director Billy Wilder once ecstatically claimed that Walter Matthau "could play anything from Rhett Butler to Scarlett O'Hara." For more than a decade Matthau was as unpredictable as his facial expressions: an adamant sheriff in Lonely Are the Brave, a psychopathic killer in Charade, an ambulance chaser in The Fortune Cookie, the libidinous suburban husband in A Guide for the Married Man. Of late, his roles have yielded an amusing but unvarying character: the rumpled crank whose shpeesh shoundsh ash if it wash making itsh way around a shigar. Plaza Suite happily puts him in reverse. In Arthur...
...must prove futile. The past is hidden somewhere beyond the reach of the intellect." In Swann's Way, it was a tea-soaked petite madeleine that touched off the hero's long-forgotten childhood memories. In the scientific world, the stimulus is sometimes a surgeon's probe. Montreal Surgeon Wilder Penfield, for example, while performing operations under local anesthesia, by chance found brain sites that when stimulated electrically led one patient to hear an old tune, another to recall an exciting childhood experience in vivid detail, and still another to relive the experience of bearing her baby. Penfield's findings...
...Daniel Callahan, much of the success of any ethical policy will depend on a responsible professional code. "If you depend solely on laws, sanctions and enforcements," says Callahan, "the game is over." Molecular Biologist Francis Crick is confident that basic morals and common sense will prevail. Some of the wilder genetic proposals will never be adopted, he claims, because "people will simply not stand for them...