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...38th President has not neglected that quality. To be called a square or a straight is not exactly a compliment in some circles, where the words imply a certain woodenness and an unadventurous approach to life. But they suggest something more as well: loyalty, honesty, diligence, patience, a fear of the Lord and what the ancient Romans used to call pietas. Gerald Rudolph Ford has all these qualities...
Crucial Fraction. That is quite a compliment for a man who moves on 35-year-old legs. At an age when Ty Cobb was able to steal only nine bases in a season and Wills had slowed down to 52, Brock looks as streamlined as he did a decade ago. He stands 5 ft. 11 in. and weighs a trim 170 lbs. Stop watches have clocked his dash from first to second at 3.5 sec., half a second better than the average baserunner. It is a crucial fraction. "It takes a pitcher an average of eight-tenths of a second...
...considered that a compliment," St. Clair said in an interview last week. Is it a compliment when applied to his handling of Nixon's case, too? "Positively," he said. "These gentlemen don't need causists. They need someone to represent them with some objectivity." The following are excerpts from that interview...
Baltimore IRS headquarters. William D. Waters, then the district director, notified Nixon last June that his returns had been "accepted as filed." Waters apparently did not examine Nixon's filings himself, but he added a line that he must now regret-a routine compliment when an audit is completed without the discovery of taxpayer liability. He commended the President for "the care shown in the preparation of your return." Waters was promoted in March to head the larger Philadelphia IRS office...
...show merely to illustrate an amusing feedback loop between pop and commercial art. In 1962, at the peak of the Batman revival, Ramos got some mileage from painting the masked hero of Bob Kane's comic strip. Four years later, a Batman comic returned the compliment by illustrating a pop exhibition in the Gotham City museum; on the wall were paintings clearly meant to look like Ramos...