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...Olympic record is 7 ft. 4 1/4 in. and Stones has been talking about winning the gold medal by at least four inches over the competition. Embree has been a bit more realistic and not quite as brash about...
...fractured leadership had come a long way toward resolving its differences. Indeed, visually, the Congress was a showpiece of elusive party unity. Lined up on the rostrum before a giant picture of Chairman Mao were representatives of just about every one of Peking's factions-from the brash young radical Wang Hung-wen to relative conservatives like Vice Premier Li Hsiennien. But the actual results of the Congress, especially its choice of men for high positions, constituted a striking victory for the party's moderates. The major appointments...
That career was a capsule history of show business. Benny Kubelsky, a poor Jewish kid from Waukegan, III., was something of a prodigy on the violin; his father, a small-time haberdasher, entertained hopes of a concert career. But by 1912 the brash kid had practical-joked his way out of school and onto the vaudeville stage. His solo act, A Few Minutes with Jack Benny, swiftly became the country's most civilized performance. When Jack tried a Broadway revue, Robert Benchley marveled at his savoir-faire. Yet somehow Benny always seemed a cut below headliner status...
...February-the first major opposition he has faced from within his own party since his first run for mayor in 1955. The strongest challenge comes from Alderman William Singer, 33, who led the delegation that was seated instead of Daley's at the 1972 Democratic Convention. Singer, brash and scrappy, has charged Daley with wholesale neglect of the city's deteriorating school system, and plans to visit all of the city's 584 public schools personally before the primary...
...Interstate-80. There, to their backs, stand a full barrage of vending machines along with racks of groceries. In front of them, through the breath-fogged, plate glass windows, another carload of home-bound college kids unloads, and the men stop talking, bracing themselves for the next invasion of brash, Harvard-educated Southerners, Westerners or Midwesterners...