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...tent is a "collapsible shelter of canvas or other material stretched and sustained by poles." So says Webster's and so most people believe. Bill Moss has a broader concept. He knows that there are A-frames and O-domes and poly-domes, pup tents and pop tents, Indian tepees and Mongolian yurts, tents for dogs and campers and sheiks, tents that sag and perspire and leak, tents that infuriate. In fact Moss knows so much about the subject that even the Arabs -tent mavens from way back-may soon be living in Moss-designed, tentlike housing...
...many Carters are there, for heaven's sake?" asked a bewildered Florida Democrat, who in one hard-breathing campaign week had been buttonholed by Jimmy, had his hand squeezed by Son Jack and received the "sweetest phone call you ever heard" from Wife Rosalynn. Like the Spanish moss that flourishes in the South, the Carters are conspicuous, tenacious and at times overwhelming. Most of them will be at the convention. If the pater familias is elected President, a Carter Administration will be a family affair...
That much-worked-over ground is Lukas' subject matter. He gathers his moss only from the underside of Nixon's career. He does not praise the President's foreign policy or celebrate his kindness to children and dogs. On the other hand, he also scrupulously avoids the kind of titillating invasion of privacy -the tears, the booze, the beating of fists on the carpet-that Woodward and Bernstein trade on in The Final Days (TIME, March 29). The result is a massive, careful encyclopedia that sorts out all existing Nixon-era evidence-the tapes, hearings. Justice Department...
...just that none of the big teams have raced each other, and so the seeding is all on hearsay," captain Katy Moss explained yesterday. "It won't make too much difference anyway. They'll all come up against each other in the finals...
Radcliffe has not been tested this year, Moss said. "Even with Princeton, there was no question who would win. But every other year we've had to come from behind at least once to win, and you learn something from that," she added. Moss will be sidelined this week with a knee problem...