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This week leftist unions and Socialist Party organizations will celebrate the first anniversary of the electoral victory that brought Mitterrand's Socialists and his Communist allies to power for the first time since the '30s. What the celebrators can cheer most honestly is just the sort of shrewd maneuver demonstrated by the President in the police-law dispute: compromise, adding the water of realism to his ideological wine...
...disaster to state road crews. "Mud is part of Vermont living," he says, "you try to organize your life around it. Pretty soon it dries out and then, pretty soon it comes again." On particularly bad nights, he gets out his guitar and sings something to cheer the boys up. The Vermont highway department is noted for its esprit de corps, and Burke's songs cover the traditional themes so comforting to men who must battle not only raging storms but also bureaucrats and politicians who would budget perfectly good funds for, say, schools instead of roads. One song...
...didn't finish (1928, 1932 and 1956). "I meet people every day now," Keliey says, "with gray heads, bald heads, who tell me how their fathers always took them to Fenway on Patriots Day morning to see the Red Sox and then on to the race to cheer us in. Boston is Boston. It's tradition. But I'm as confused as all get out now. Jeepers, it's a whole new ball game." Kelley's favorite running now is at home on Cape Cod in the morning: "No traffic, no people, no nothing...
LIKE PROFESSIONAL SPORTS, political campaigns end in a championship competition. But unlike the baseball season, for example, which offers 162 direct clashes even before the playoffs, long campaign seasons provide few head-to-head confrontations allowing fans the opportunity to cheer and pundits the occasion to analyze. As a result, any joust short of actual balloting receives an inordinate amount of attention. This is especially so for debates...
...king of international tennis, the Ice-man epitomized the qualities of a superstar, a hero to cheer about and not be ashamed of. Now, however, Borg's reputation is being impugned by fans questioning his dedication to the game: Is he truly a champion, whose love for the challenge remains, or is he like the "others," vitiated by extraordinary talent into a celebrity profit-making enterprise...