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...which is an octave plus four white notes) were spread imploringly on the table. The gray-blue eyes gazed boyishly across the hotel room where his wife of 43 years, Aniela, his Nela, was reading on the sofa. In the inquiring way that some husbands have with wives they depend on, he was at once asking for confirmation and for permission to boast...
...must be able to exploit a politically disen-franchised sector of the labor force more intensely, and to export the economic and political costs of unemployment to underdeveloped countries, both of which migratory labor makes possible. Thus political stability and economic growth in the industrial centers of western Europe depend on the political divisions between countries within a continent which is at once economically integrated and unevenly developed...
...REFUSAL of the Massachusetts State Senate's Ways and Means Committee to free Chapter 842, the state-wide rent-control enabling act, for a vote by the Senate is a disgraceful abuse of power in high places. Thousands of tenants depend on the law to maintain stable rents and to prevent unfair evictions by landlords. Without it rents would almost certainly undergo an immediate hike. Keeping the bill in committee at a time when its expiration date is drawing near will kill it, and so silence the voices of tenants and their supporters in the Senate on an issue that...
...other combat planes (principally F-4 Phantoms and the Israeli-designed Kfirs) are being outfitted with the latest electronic gadgets to aid in night flying missions and foil antiaircraft missiles. The Shrike air-to-surface missile has been deployed to knock out the radars on which antiaircraft batteries depend. In addition, Israel is receiving "smart" bombs, which can be guided onto targets. Still on Jerusalem's shopping list are American RPVs (remotely piloted vehicles), which can counter the Arabs' Russian-built SAMs by drawing antiaircraft fire. To bolster its ground forces, Jerusalem is acquiring the TOW antitank missiles...
...nature, such a self-study is liable to lack objectivity. Dr. James Watson, the founder of behavioral psychology, pointed out that none of our knowledge can depend on data in which the observer and the observed are in the same person. The prohibition was lamentable, from the viewpoint of a fuller understanding of human behavior--after all, who but the individual himself is always present, with a front-seat view of everything he does? Freud recognized the risks involved in self-analysis, but rejected the loss to the behavioral sciences imposed by Watson's prohibition and so ignored it. Through...