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...Alfred Kinsey's Institute for Sex Research, estimates that only around 10% of all homosexuals are immediately recognizable. Blatants often draw sneers from other homosexuals, and in fact many of them are only going through a phase. Having recently "come out"?admitted their condition and joined the homosexual world???they feel insecure in their new roles and try to re-create their personalities from scratch. Behaving the way they think gay people are supposed to behave, they too temporarily fall victim to the myth...
...late. He too still nourishes his myths and his illusions, but the lessons of Israel's prowess have not been lost on him. Given a protective push from the big powers, and a little give from the Israelis, Gamal Abdel Nasser might yet provide Israel?and the world???with the means to a Middle East solution...
...wanderings, Onassis is only a superficial sophisticate. His humor has a peasant strain. One of his favorite jokes describes "the noisiest thing in the world???two skeletons making love on a tin roof." A hardheaded Scotch drinker (only at night), he has smashed upwards of $700 worth of crockery in bouzouki establishments, and has been known to snore in a La Scala opera box during a Callas première. Even his fellow Greek shipping kings long dismissed him as a crude upstart. Says one acquaintance: "He was trash to some Greeks, the way old Joe Kennedy was trash to some...
...There can be a mystique about a man," Nixon said of Agnew after the convention. "You can look him in the eye and know he's got it. This guy has got it." What Agnew has got is a reflexive feel for how millions of fellow Americans view the world???many of them through suburban windows. It is another question whether he also has the qualities of leadership, intellect and judgment that are required, in an age of instant communications and thermonuclear weaponry, of a man who might some day be thrust into the presidency of the U.S. Agnew...
...West, and especially the U.S., has no alternative but to accept the Soviet challenge on the seas, because the welfare of the U.S.?and of the entire free world???is so solidly tied to the sea and to the untrammeled flow of trade. It would be a historic error if a nation as powerful as the U.S. allowed a crisis elsewhere, no matter how troublesome, to distract it from its determination to retain the mastery of the sea that Admiral Gorshkov is so anxious to wrest from...