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...breaking ahead of the pack is bound to come under fire. That has been happening lately to Jimmy Carter, who has been getting an increasingly critical press. Carter last week discussed specific complaints against him in interviews with TIME Senior Editor Marshall Loeb and Washington Correspondent Stanley Cloud. Some of the charges, and Carter's replies...
...clapped or cheered at liftoff. We climbed steeply into a cloud bank. By the time we were out of it, our speed was nearly that of a conventional jetliner. Aside from a brief sinking feeling shortly after takeoff the flight was remarkably smooth in accelerating. A "mach meter," an aerial speedometer, in view of passengers in the first few rows reached mach 1. There were gasps and cheers. Then came an announcement from the cockpit: "Ladies and gentlemen, you have just become the first 100 passengers in the history of the world to pass the speed of sound...
Short range, the darkest cloud hanging over the CEA'S forecasts is money-supply policy. The Federal Reserve Board has lately been undershooting Burns' own target of a 5% to 7.5% annual rate of increase; the nation's money supply has grown at an annual rate of only 2.7% in the past three months. The CEA report asks: Will money-supply growth be appropriate? Its answer: Yes. But that yes is based on Burns' target, not on actual performance, and some economists at the CEA are afraid that the Federal Reserve will not produce on schedule...
Speed skaters hate the strong midday sun. Its rays can heat-and slow-the surface of the ice and cost racers precious hundredths of a second. Victory literally can hang on a passing cloud. It also depends on technique. Speed is generated by the piston power of the leg; the deeper the racing crouch the greater distance the piston can extend. Arms play no part, except on the turns, when racers swing them metronomically to develop what they call "the slingshot" effect. Skates are a streamlined amalgam of 16-in. blades and ankle-high boots of soft kangaroo leather...
...Garden of Eden. There innocence and order are restored, and readers "may know love as love and not as the law." The Great Restorer is the godlike genius detective. Christie's own genius resided in a mind of intimidating clarity. She never allowed emotion or philosophical doubt to cloud her devious conceptions or hinder the icy logic of their untanglings. Born Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller in Torquay, she was the daughter of a rich American and an English mother. Although gifted with a good singing voice, she abandoned a stage career because of her shyness. In 1914 she married...