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...right of free men to choose their leaders is precious and rare in a world mainly ruled by authoritarian governments. It is the genius of the American Constitution that it combines stability with liberty; it does so in part by fixing a term for the Chief Executive and largely protecting him from the caprices of parliamentary governments. An American President must be given the widest freedom of action, the utmost tolerance, the most generous benefit of every doubt. It is a system that has served us well...
...loss was understandable, however. He had taken the law boards earlier that morning and had not had a chance to scout the unfamiliar Cornell course. Leading early in the race, he veered off the course several times and lost precious seconds in his battle with Cornell...
...updated books range from Charles Schwartz's carefully detailed but somewhat precious biography Gershwin, His Life and Music (Bobbs-Merrill; $12.50) to the New York Times's handsome songbook, The Gershwin Years in Song ($14.95). Dominating them all is Atheneum's The Gershwins ($25). Written and edited by Biographer Robert Kimball and Gershwin Intimate Alfred Simon, cleverly designed by Bea Feitler, The Gershwins is an ingenious "scrapbook" containing just about everything in the way of letters, documents, recollections, essays, chronologies, manuscript pages and pictures that one would want to read or see concerning George and his lyricist...
...years of experience smoothed out the wrinkles. She lost weight, gained poise and began acting on her conviction that the traditional dominance of the game by the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association was doing precious little for women players. She agitated for bigger purses and against antiquated restrictions that bound players to U.S.L.T.A.-sanctioned tournaments. Finally she bolted to lead a rival tour two years ago. In 1971 and 1972 her annual winnings exceeded $ 100,000, a record for women athletes. This year the U.S.L.T.A. finally compromised, allowing the independents to enter the tournaments they wished. And, for the first time...
EDUCATION ISN'T EVERYTHING. That was the way Americans put it through most of their-intermittently anti-intellectual -history. You could learn the three Rs in school, but precious little about life in the rough. In the past two or three decades, that philosophy changed as billions of dollars of federal funds were pumped into education with the aim of eliminating a variety of social ills: poverty, criminality, class distinctions. But the massive effort by no means achieved the lofty goals. In his controversial new book, Inequality, Psychologist Christopher Jencks argues that education is only one of many factors...