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...RIGHT AWAY we slip through the present's thin veneer and are submerged in the whole history of an object--in this case, a simple pencil. The entirety of one of the earliest of Nabokov's brief chapters is devoted to illustrating the past visible in that anonymous pencil, from the grinding of its graphite and the felling of the pine for its case to the final implement, all in a discovered second of perception...
...hard bargaining was far from over. President Nguyen Van Thieu was resisting the terms of the settlement with all his might?publicly, at least. Hanoi was complaining that the U.S. was trying to slip out of a promise to sign the agreement by Oct. 31, a date that seemed too soon to be realistic. Nor was the fighting yet at an end. Indeed the heaviest ground action in months flared up in Viet Nam as both sides jockeyed for eleventh-hour gains in advance of a cease-fire in place...
...safe in Stans' office. The four drafts later turned up in the Miami bank accounts of Bernard Barker, one of the seven men accused of bugging Watergate. Of the remaining money in the Stans safe, $350,000 was deposited in a Washington bank with the notation on a deposit slip: "Cash on hand to 4/7/72 from 1968 campaign." Stans later admitted to investigators that the notation was phony; the money had been collected more recently. The General Accounting Office searched unsuccessfully for the legally required record of expenditures from this fund. It contended there were "apparent" violations...
...some antique carnival machines or stare at the leotard-clad figure of Lizalotta Valesca, 70. In 1930 she was Miss Finland; today she is perhaps the world's best-preserved great-grandmother and a persuasive saleswoman for a line of health and beauty aids. Visitors could also slip into an adjoining auditorium and hear lectures on such subjects as biofeedback (TIME, Oct. 16) and the prevention of illness and achievement of a satisfactory sex life through proper eating...
Sadat let slip some rare criticism of his predecessor, Gamal Abdel Nasser. The Egyptian army had not been properly trained under Nasser to fight an offensive war, Sadat declared-and it had also become too political. "The Egyptian army should have been converted to a fighting army after the 1956 Suez war," Sadat told al Hawadess. Egypt at that point had suffered a military setback, "but we turned it into a political victory" (when President Eisenhower forced Britain, France and Israel to desist in their combined attack on Egypt...