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...local black organizations were hampered by a decision Evers made during the middle of his campaign that virtually all of the money he raised out of state would be used on his gubenitorial campaign and not sent to the county organizations. Evers initially had decided to run as a catalyst to pull out a large black vote capable of electing at least 100 local officials, but at the end of the campaign, put all of his resources in an extensive media campaign...
...wants Americans to acknowledge the war as "an image of ultimate transgression." Redemption, he feels, can come by adopting an attitude of "animating guilt"-a catalyst for transforming destructive old instincts and concepts into constructive new ones. Is such psychic alchemy possible on a national scale? Lifton confesses that he does not know. But he urges that the na tion take his veterans as models...
...usual, a minor conflict served to mask a power showdown. The catalyst was Nikki Pilic, the flamboyant Yugoslav star who was suspended by his national association for not living up to a purported commitment to represent his country in Davis Cup competition. "There is no problem," said Pilic. "The president of the Yugoslav association is my uncle." But the uncle was adamant, despite Pilic's pleas that he had never agreed to play. Then the I.L.T.F rashly involved the entire tennis world in what was essentially a family affair. It suspended Pilic until July 1, forcing him to miss...
...first step toward a more reasoned approach to emission control was taken when the EPA granted a one-year extension of the compliance deadline. However, the administrator was obliged by the act to impose stringent interim standards which may still require the use of wastefully expensive catalyst technology...
...paradise of Tralfamadore, a planet where little green men explain to earthlings that time is not a flowing river but a range of mountains, all eternally coexistent. Many of Vonnegut's characters, too, coexist from book to book. Kilgore Trout, the science-fiction writer who eventually becomes the catalyst of disaster in Breakfast of Champions (Delacorte; $7.95), first appeared in God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater...