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According to the documents, Carter's Cabinet meetings include a staggering array of subjects, as many as 52 main topics and 80 subtopics on Nov. 7, 1977. This was one of the longer meetings (1 hr. 53 min.); nonetheless, the Cabinet could spend an average of only 2 min. 10 sec. on each subject. This compression may discourage debate and encourage banalities, like U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young's recorded statement on Oct. 17,1977-in its entirety -that "a very troublesome problem facing the international community is the energy issue...
...stories on the choice of a Pope and on the presidential prospects of Ted Kennedy [Aug. 21] provide an ironic contrast. For Pope, there is a bewildering array of choices of men of proven ability and unblemished record, so that it is hard to pick a front runner. But for President, there seem to be few options. Ted Kennedy appears to be far and away the front runner. Yet he has little or no executive or military experience. His best friends would not maintain that he is of outstanding intellect or character, and his blemished past is a source...
...called Very Large Array, a monstrous 48 km by 32 km (30 miles by 20 miles) Y-shaped radio telescope, consisting of 27 individual dish-shaped antennas, that is now about half completed in New Mexico. It is designed to probe deep into distant quasars, which may be powered by black holes...
...larger than ever, flea markets still allow anyone with an eye to sharp trading to go into business almost instantly. All a would-be proprietor has to do is rent a modest stall or table, for $4 to $20 a day. Then the fun begins: people display an incredible array of items pulled from closets, attics, gardens, in-laws and, only occasionally, outlaws. With an eye for hot merchandise, police sometimes patrol the bigger markets, but the difficulty of making positive identifications means that there is often little they can do to knock down any fences...
...called It Didn't Start with Watergate, the muckraking conservative journalist Victor Lasky detailed prior presidential offenses-what he says were Franklin Roosevelt's uses of the FBI to dig up scandal on his enemies and to tap the home phones of his top advisers, the spectacular array of extramarital affairs that Jack Kennedy paraded through Camelot, the Kennedy wiretaps on Martin Luther King Jr., and so on. Why was only Nixon driven from office for his offenses when he had such precedents for misbehavior? The three articles of impeachment adopted by the House Judiciary Committee were specific...