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Some time in August the summer releases intended for the adolescent market begin to look like teenagers themselves. They lollygag around in aimless groups on Main Street and at the shopping mall, languidly pushing and shoving at one another, vaguely annoying to the adults passing by. It's nothing to call the police about, but one does hurry on past...
...without doubt persuasive military reasons for using the new weapon in the summer of 1945. The first day of fighting on Iwo Jima had cost more American casualties than D-day; on Okinawa, 79,000 U.S. soldiers were killed or wounded. As the U.S. readied plans to invade the main islands, Japan was deploying up to 2 million soldiers and additional millions of "auxiliaries" who were clearly prepared to defend their homeland to the death. It was easy to believe estimates that an invasion would result in as many as a million American casualties, plus many more Japanese. The Bomb...
...Arafat P.L.O. hierarchy was more worried about the understandings reached in Saudi Arabia between Jordan and Syria. The main concern: that the two countries might agree on a format for dealing with the Israelis without P.L.O. participation. To try to ensure against that eventuality, Arafat's Tunis-based branch of the P.L.O. was assiduously cultivating two Syria-based P.L.O. factions, the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the Palestinian Communist Party. Said a P.L.O. source in Tunis: "We don't want our cause to be hijacked by any Arab country or countries...
Wise people do not discuss sex or money, and a new survey shows why. MONEY magazine polled a national sample of 2,491 adults, all of whom described themselves as the main financial decision makers in their households. Sixty-three percent of the respondents were men; 37% were women. Among the findings: 51% of the women polled said they think about money more often than sex, in contrast to only 27% of the men. One sobering statistic: nearly one-third of all women said they enjoy money more than sex; a mere 26% favored sex. Men had decidedly different priorities...
...news from Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong and all the men are good-looking and all the children are above average." In between, for 20 minutes or so, he discourses wonderingly, without notes, on a place where a dog lying asleep in the middle of Main Street will live out his days. In eleven years of talking about Lake Wobegon on A Prairie Home Companion, he has not run out of material, nor does he seem likely to. He begins, on a recent show, to reflect in a misty way about married love, then cuts the mush...