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Herman Gollob, editor in chief of Atheneum, admits that "there is one kind of fiction that is disappearing - the non-friction novel that gives off no sparks, that is selfconscious, competent, tedious. But the rest of the list has unprecedented vitality and variety. If you can get Judith Krantz's Scruples and John Irving's The World According to Garp on the same bestseller list, you have a thriving democratic literature. " It is a literature that will always experience depressions as well as rallies. But for now, most publishers of novels and stories are bullish on fiction...
...Bade County declared itself to be a bilingual jurisdiction, and Spanish became the second official language for such things as election ballots, public signs and local directories. Despite this accommodating gesture, there is friction between Hispanics and non-Hispanics in Bade. Many English-speaking residents, particularly older ones, resent the pervasiveness of the new language. There are frequent complaints of Cuban clannishness (only 5% of Cubans intermarry) and of arrogance. Result: many anglos are gradually retreating from Miami...
...Skylab space station from plunging prematurely to earth. Late last year, Skylab began to show a dangerous loss of altitude, a byproduct of atmospheric effects caused by unexpectedly strong sunspot activity during the current solar cycle. Skylab's descent is being hastened by its wobbling motion, which increases friction as the ship moves through stray molecules of atmosphere in its path. Ground controllers twice tried unsuccessfully to stabilize the craft, hoping to keep it aloft at least until the end of 1979. By then the space shuttle may be ready to carry into space a small booster that could...
There is, in fact, a bit of friction between presidential aides in the West Wing, where Powell and others now admit they have tended to underestimate Mrs. Carter's considerable potential, and the East Wing, where Mrs. Carter's staff would like her to get more attention, and yet, contrarily, overprotects her from the press, which she is quite capable of handling with a Southern combination of firmness and grace. Concedes Powell: "We just haven't done the job we could have in utilizing her. We've been so caught up in other things, we neglected...
...friction dates back to Chancellor Helmut Schmidt's pronouncement shortly before the 1976 election that he wanted to see President Gerald Ford defeat Carter ("It was stupid," a chancellery aide now admits). Since then, Carter and Schmidt have wrangled over nuclear non-proliferation policy (the Germans want to sell fuel-reprocessing plants), Washington's public crusade on human rights (the Germans think it's preachy and unsophisticated) and economic policy (the Germans think Washington must cut oil imports to strengthen the dollar). Only last week, when asked about his relations with Carter in a television show...