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...brilliant fall, this promises to be Europe's cruelest winter of discontent. Like America, Europe has celebrated more than a quarter-century of spiraling conspicuous consumption, and it is not mentally prepared to do without. Cars clog the cities. Lights burn through the night. Parents plan their precious ski holidays around the Christmas vacation, assuming that they can all go on living as they are. But that will not happen. The fourth Arab-Israeli war and its consequences have brought Western Europe to the point of no return...
...Copenhagen last week that the heads-of-government summit will "lay the groundwork for significant cooperation in matters of foreign policy ..." The problem with these promises is that they have been made before. The summits of '69 and '72 were supposed to lay similar groundwork, but precious little changed...
...message every pilot seeks is where to find updrafts, or lift, that will provide precious altitude. Lift comes in three main forms: thermals, ridge currents and mountain waves. Thermals are capricious updrafts generated by such sun-warmed spots as hilltops, deserts, parking lots and plowed fields. Large fires at garbage dumps will also do the trick. In competition, pilots try to gain altitude by rising with one thermal, then diving to another near by. They may be detected by clouds, airborne debris, hawks or odors. "Thermals pick up the odor of the ground where they form," says Lloyd Licher...
...backward," says Owens. "I think it's extremely unfortunate for people to think about soaring and hang-gliding in the same context. It's like comparing the Soap Box Derby to the Indianapolis 500." The feud is particularly sharp at Torrey Pines, where all hands compete for precious air space in one of the country's best-known updrafts. Even the most adamant partisans, however, seem willing to glide and let glide in the common pursuit of lift...
...substantive terms, the Administration can cite precious few examples of what it sees as TV's "distorted reporting." Appearing on the Dick Cavett Show last week, Chicago Daily News Correspondent Peter Lisagor said: "We've been trying since that Friday night press conference to get a bill of particulars, specify what was distorted, what was hysterical, what was vicious. And about the only thing that we can come up with so far is that Walter Cronkite quoted Hanoi radio one time as saying the President was out of his senses...