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...Mary Cunningham incident does not reveal any startling new truths, only that old assumptions take along time to die. If anything, the episode shows just how urgent is the need for a stronger affirmative action effort at the highest corporate levels. Nowadays, any woman who reached a position like Cunningham's--after all, only one of 11 vice presidents in the nation's 88th largest corporation--is viewed as an oddity whose personal behavior needs to be scrutinized to explain her unusual success. Only when the number of women in the boardroom roughly equals that of men will Mary Cunningham...
...interview with Walters was held late Wednesday afternoon in the Oval Office and quickly edited for the evening's news. Carter was studiously contrite: "The tone of the campaign has departed from the way it ought to be between two candidates for the highest office in this land . . . I'll try to make sure that [it] is better in the future...
...Immunity. The legal stakes for Nixon are highest in Kissinger vs. Halperin, a case that is expected to be argued before the Supreme Court in December. Plaintiff Morton Halperin, once a senior staff member at the National Security Council, has sued high Nixon Administration officials, and Nixon himself, for $1.26 million, claiming they violated his right to privacy by tapping his phone in search of news leaks. Nixon's defense: a President must be immune from lawsuits involving his official acts...
...pert, precise and polished" prose, is so deeply rooted in the quotidian that he misses her enchantment. Yet he celebrates his own aesthetic, the "capacity to wonder at trifles," with an ardor that is irresistible. "These asides of the spirit, these footnotes in the volume of life are the highest forms of consciousness," he maintains, "and it is in this childishly speculative state of mind, so different from commonsense and its logic, that we know the world to be good...
Gerry Frost, speechwriter for Sir Keith Joseph, Thatcher's Secretary of State for Industry, spoke to a largely English, mostly Laborite gathering at the Business School last Thursday, defending the first-year policies of the Tories that have resulted in 16 per cent inflation and two million unemployed, the highest since World War II. In a change of tune since campaign day, he said the Thatcher government was cutting only $4 billion from the national budget--no more than the Callaghan Labor government proposed to slice off in its later days. Unemployment wasn't really as bad as it sounded...