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...reverse the decline in the President's prestige. A sharp appraiser of people and their talents, she also urged the shift of Presidential Aide Tim Kraft from scheduling appointments to advising on political matters. Says Kraft: "Jimmy places the greatest stock in her judgments of people. Her word is gospel." Adds Press Secretary Jody Powell: "Her political judgment is very good. She senses repercussions, impact, the way things come across, very well." With characteristic candor, Powell admits to a reservation: "We respect her judgment, but we don't always agree with...
...clearly pointed out the abyss to which worship of revolution leads. Nonetheless, many Western European intellectuals are still reluctant to face the issue squarely. If the word "pure," when used by adherents of revolution, in effect means "barbarous," perhaps the best the world can hope for in its future political upheavals is a revolution that is as "corrupt" as possible. Such skewed values are, indeed, already rife in some quarters. During the 1960s, Mao's Cultural Revolution in China was admired by many leftist intellectuals in the West, because it was supposedly "pure"-particularly by contrast with the bureaucratic...
...reporters and cameramen had converged on the town to be on hand for the birth of Baby Brown. Despite pleas from the doctors that the hullabaloo was endangering both mother and child, journalists steadfastly prowled the hospital's precincts. They were seeking any morsel of news. Perhaps a brief word with one of the doctors responsible for the Brown experiment: Patrick Steptoe, who came and went daily in his white Mercedes, dodging in and out of the hospital's side doors to avoid the press. Or a chat with the equally elusive father. Or, scoop of scoops, a photograph...
Unlike in vitro fertilization, which lets nature take its course (sperm from the father and an egg from the mother unite, albeit in a test tube), cloning is asexual, single-parent reproduction. Instead of being a mixture of genes from two parents, the clone (from the Greek word klon, meaning twig or slip) is a genetic copy of its single parent...
...though Murdoch's Sun somehow got hold of a few Enquirer morsels last week in London. Murdoch's Star, a Manhattan-based competitor of the Enquirer, will be out this week with some color snapshots, obtained from friends and neighbors of the Browns, and a 3,500-word article...