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Cardinal Samore attacked his special assignment with what a U.S. diplomat in Buenos Aires called "the tenacity of a bulldog." In 15 days, he spent 60 hours in conferences and 56 hours in the air, earning himself the nickname ' the Vatican Kissinger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LATIN AMERICA: War Averted | 1/22/1979 | See Source »

...King's "Saloon," featuring the Great Jubilee Banjo Band and drawings for a radio-controlled miniature tractor-trailer for someone's lucky kid; and, of course, Mack Trucks' elegant soirée in the Trianon Ballroom, where a giant golden statue of its famous symbol, a bulldog, was displayed on the stage like an Inca god. At each convention Mack gives away 4,000 stuffed bulldogs, each year a little different; they are considered collectors' items. As a host at the Sears, Roebuck disco room celebration said, "It doesn't matter how much it costs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Truckin' De Luxe at the Hilton | 12/18/1978 | See Source »

...Providence there's joy. In Hanover there's ectasy. In New York City, the Lions are hiding. And somewhere in New Haven, a staggering bulldog is about to roll over and play dead...

Author: By Mark D. Director, | Title: Brown Turns Back Holy Cross, 31-25 | 10/30/1978 | See Source »

...only life Sam Walker had ever known. Born at West Point, he was the son of General Walton H. ("Bulldog") Walker, who fought across Europe under George Patton and died in a 1950 jeep accident while commanding the Eighth Army in Korea. Sam Walker became an expert infantryman, master parachutist, and even learned to pilot a helicopter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Case of the Fallen Star | 10/9/1978 | See Source »

Giamatti's citation from Harvard reads: Harvard hails the next leader of her sister institution, and wishes him well. To the travails of university administration, he brings the tenacity of a bulldog and the brio of a Renaissance...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: Solzhenitsyn, Giamatti, Nine Others Receive Honoraries at Commencement | 6/8/1978 | See Source »

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