Word: wrongs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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They call him 'Tree Stump' and 'Bowling Ball,' but next week all 5-ft. 5 1/2-in. of Mike Paulovich hopes to stop all those who maliciously whistle Randy Newman's tune behind his back. The Kirkland House junior is out to prove the skeptics (including his own coaches) wrong and strike a blow for short people everywhere by earning a berth on one of the three Harvard lightweight varsity crew boats...
...lack of aggressive salesmanship by some of the Americans they met. In Atlanta, Keigo Yamada, executive managing director of Ito-Yokado, a chain of discount department stores with an annual sales volume of $1.3 billion, shied away from a meal of grits and complained that he was meeting the wrong people. Yamada wanted American sportswear modified to suit Japanese tastes and sizes but, he says, was told "that they would have to ask their supervisors in New York." A Mitsubishi buyer offered Jose Lopez of the Atlanta-based Salvatori Corp. $3 apiece for men's ties that normally sell...
...sought out a strong wife to shield him from worldly problems. Barbara Star, a professor of social work at the University of Southern California, finds that battered spouses are usually people who feel overwhelmed by life, repress all strong feelings and tend to blame themselves for whatever goes wrong. Most, she explains, are convinced that fighting back is useless...
...practice polydoxy, began six years ago with six families and now has 100, many previously unaffiliated with any synagogue. The movement has also spread overseas. Rabbi Anthony Holz, who recently returned from a congregation in Pretoria, South Africa, summarizes his polydox outlook: "Fifty percent of what we know is wrong, and we can never know which fifty percent...
...Puritanism but admires the national trait of altruism. He cherishes our chronic forgetfulness and blithering unawareness of history (talkshow gabber to ex-Premier Cao Ky of South Viet Nam, who now runs a liquor store in California: "We still have a minute left. Could you tell us what went wrong...