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...which they do not want to see shut down because of political instability or mismanagement. Despite the Latin leaders' public messages of unwavering, unambiguous support of the canal pacts, one visiting foreign minister fretted: "I hope that Jeemy Carter has not gotten himself to far out on a limb on our behalf...
Carter is indeed out on a limb. The fact is the canal has a constituency and the treaty has no constituency," says Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker, who along with Sol Linowitz negotiated the accord. By one nose count, only 35 Senators now favor the treaty, 22 are opposed and 43 are undecided-far short of the two-thirds vote needed for approval. But the undecided count may be deceptive. A vote on the treaty is not likely to occur until early next year and, as one Republican Senator asks, "Why shouldI make my position known now? I'd just...
...happy news this fall is that legs are coming in from the cold. The fashion industry is calling this the Year of the Leg. Designers can hardly do too much to glamorize the gam and take the limb out of limbo. Dawn Mello, fashion director of Bergdorf Goodman, pronounces: "If you want to do something new to your wardrobe, you accessorize the leg." Adds Sunny Clark, a buyer for Henri Bendel: "This year there are a jillion different looks for the leg." The re-emergence of the leg results partly from the new, bigger, fuller skirts and dresses that require...
...vacations spent on beaches dark with oil from ships sunk off the New Jersey coast by German U-boats. Hoopes found hundreds of nostalgic oddments. One man remembers a lapel button: "It showed Uncle Sam, and when you pulled the string. Uncle Sam pulled Hitler up on a tree limb and hanged him. The slogan was LET'S ALL PULL TOGETHER." A woman asks, "Do you remember punching oleo up in a bag to make it look like butter?" Restaurants posted a sign: USE LITTLE SUGAR AND STIR LIKE HELL. WE DON'T MIND THE NOISE. Radio stations...
Jaynes realizes, though, that he may be building on a weak foundation. "The book is like a tree, and I'm going out on a limb in many places, there are so many ends where testing could be done," he says...