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...when the department meets to consider nominating someone for a permanent appointment, the discussions must be thorough, because, as Mansfield said, "once a professor is accepted, he becomes infinitely wise and it is no longer possible to raise the questions that were raised when he was discussed...
...will encourage the military junta in Israel to instigate war on the northern front. The frequency of aggression−by sea, air and land−directed against the south of Lebanon and Palestinian refugee camps is evidence that the Israelis are encouraged to make more war. How could any wise man think this agreement in the Sinai, of a few kilometers here and there, has frozen the conflict between Israel and the Arabs? Such a small step took two years. How many years before a real solution to the basic conflict is found...
...semitough owner of a sports arena cut off the loud-checked Damon Runyon cloth. As a nod to more recent fashion, he has been given a hip black man as an assistant. But as the subliterary tradition to which he belongs insists, he is married to a wise-dumb ex-chorine, and they are warmhearted and lovable despite their grammatical struggles...
...discovered what he calls intimidation−really traditional oneupmanship. He started sending lavish 10-in. by 10-in. brochures as calling cards−each costing about $5 and featuring a glossy photo of the earth as seen from an Apollo spaceship. The legend: earth is "an investment to the wise." Explains Ringer: "The brochure was intimidating. I was not just another member of the pack. I was obviously 'somebody.' " Ringer continued to intimidate by arranging to get his clients to meet him at airports where they could watch him land in his own Learjet. He traveled with...
While the latest jump is far less than the 122% proposed by Wenner, the increase-not to mention others that are certain to come along between now and 1980-poses an economic threat to many magazines and newspapers. This threat again raises the question of whether it is wise national policy to make the mails pay for themselves, as the Postal Reorganization Act mandates, or whether the service should be subsidized in the interest of informed public opinion...