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...foreign policy molds, willing to deal equably with diversity abroad and genuinely committed to the cause of human rights. Having frequently demonstrated his skill with political symbolism at home, the President seemed to be trying his hand at the same game overseas. Apart from a possible upward blip in the popularity polls, however, he left home anticipating no heavy returns from this trip or the one in March. Said a senior U.S. official of the communiqués that were being drafted for each stop: "They will be remembered for less time than it takes to write them...
Spiegel's test: hold the head level and roll the eyes upward as far as possible. Then, as the eyelids are lowered slowly, have someone check the amount of white space that shows under the corneas. The greater the white space, the greater the capacity to be hypnotized...
...Arctic sun.--penetrating, intense--seems not so much to shine as to strike. Even the trickles of water that run down my T-shirt feel good. Meanwhile, the river--the clearest, purest water I have ever seen flowing over rocks--breaks the light into flashes and sends them upward into the eyes...
Bellows is walking into the jaws of another strong-willed publisher. Francis L. Dale, 56, a U.S. diplomat in Geneva before becoming Herald-Examiner publisher in April, has turned the Saturday-afternoon edition into a more promising morning paper, plastered the building with posters for what he calls "Operation Upward Bound," and installed seat belts on his chair to remind employees to hold back on flamboyant schemes...
...only was the Russian demand for ships an omen that the U.S.S.R. planned to buy more gram than would be necessary with a good harvest, but it lifted world freight rates by 15%,which should also have produced alarm. Finally, U.S. prices of wheat and corn took a slight upward tick from August through October, a rare happening at harvesttime, when prices are almost always depressed. The only explanation: large foreign purchases...