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Subtle Signs. Despite all those las, Sadat's elevation was sufficiently swift and smooth to demonstrate a degree of continuity, if not necessarily stability. Subtle signs were beginning to surface of a potential struggle for power that could convulse the most populous Arab nation...
...have S.J. Perelman saying "I think Swift said that life is not only nasty and brutish, but short" [Sept. 28]. Perelman should be advised that the quotation is from Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan (1651): the life of man is "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short...
...Baby. In the Administration and on Capitol Hill, response was swift. Spiro Agnew asserted that "it's not our baby," and promised that "as long as Richard Nixon is President, Main Street is not going to turn into Smut Alley." Senator Thomas Dodd's Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency prepared to summon commission members for some sharp questioning about the panel's mandate. In the opinion of some angry Congressmen, the investigators had ignored their assigned tasks of defining obscenity and pornography, determining its effect on children, and proposing federal antismut laws. Other Congressmen began filling the hopper...
Indeed, in the first four races Gretel II had shown herself easily as swift a sloop-and perhaps even faster in light airs. What Aussie Skipper Jim Hardy could not prove was his crew's superiority over Intrepid's Bill Picker and his polished young sailors. Time after time, Gretel II grasped for the advantage, only to be frustrated by the seamen aboard Intrepid. The fifth race was more of the same. Gretel II jumped off to an early lead, footing smartly in the soft, fluky winds. In a series of aggressive tacks, Picker overhauled the Aussies...
...Family. Much of the reason for this productive peacefulness lies in the psychology of the Japanese people. Their swift passage out of feudalism in little more than a century has not completely erased the stoic acceptance of a fixed hierarchical order. In contrast to most Americans, Japanese workers are quite willing to bow to managerial authority and place their own desires second to the goals of the company that pays their wages...