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In the national interest, therefore, why not radical reform? A truce. Sweep the disclosure forms into the White House shredder. Declare, à la Senator George Aiken, the Battle of Watergate won, withdraw the troops and proclaim a general amnesty. After all, we do it for draft dodgers and deserters after...
Many Americans also take a jaundiced view of what the U.S. Treasury is doing. Says Richard Banz, a bond specialist with the London subsidiary of Chase Manhattan Bank: "Never underestimate the ingenuity of a government when it needs money." Critics point out that the new legislation will create an unusual...
A glaring controversy was the javelin competition, which began a little after 5 p.m., when the spear throwers complained that a fellow could lose his Olympics in the sun. Duncan Atwood noted, "It was sort of like having a flash go off in your face just as you released." Mel...
A place on the ticket would have enormous symbolic power. Ann Lewis, like some other feminists, makes the Jackie Robinson analogy when she talks about a woman vice president. "If Branch Rickey had asked people whether to put a black on the field, would they have ever told him, 'Now...
MEANWHILE, Baltimore joins the ranks of cities scorned. The most famous franchise move, the relocations of baseball's Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants to California in the early '60s, threatened our deepest illusions about sport because they were so blatantly mercenary. Forever shattered was the image of owners as...