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...lost faith in the efficacy of prayer. He suggests the all-round fellow of the 1960s who is the antithesis of Renaissance man-painfully aware of nearly everything, truly able at nothing. His spine seems to be a stack of plastic napkin rings. But he has no false bravado, and he is relentlessly attractive. In nearly every woman there stirs the same silent response: "Marcello obviously needs professional help, but first he needs...
...Ahab-like" in his determination to scale the Eiger's north wall, a 6,000-ft.-high slab of rock raked by avalanches and lashed by storms. The Eiger can be scaled with only moderate difficulty from the west or south. But mountaineers, with typically contrary bravado, are inevitably lured to its north wall, where more than 100 people have managed to make it to the top and 25 others have been killed in the attempt. Many mountaineers consider it the world's toughest climb...
With a touch of bravado, the Ghanaian Times invoked on Kwame Nkrumah's behalf the classic plaint: "Save me from my friends; mine enemies I can take care of." This was putting Nkrumah's plight too simply. From the way things were going in Accra, Osagyefo could no longer tell which was which...
Appropriately attired in grey, Dave Beck, 68, looked downcast as he surrendered to U.S. marshals in Seattle for the start of two concurrent five-year federal prison terms for tax fraud. But there was still a touch of the old bravado in the onetime boss of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. As he boarded an 84-ft. launch near Tacoma that took him four miles across Puget Sound to McNeil Island Penitentiary, he called: "Remember MacArthur, boys! I'll be back." When the turnipy teamster does return, he will face 15 more years for embezzlement of his union...
Despite our oratorical bravado We're, all of us, so . . . incommunicado. GENE GRAMM New York City...