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During his brief career as an amateur politico Portlist has collected dozens of uncomplimentary labels. He has been called a demagogue, a Communist, and a scapegoat. His own view of himself is less sinister. "I'm a crank," he declares. "The far right doesn't have a monopoly...
...radical from the Northern point of view. But in Mississippi, Hodding Carter recalls, people who had always vaguely thought that "Bill Faulkner is one of us" by the mid-'50s were calling him "small-minded Willie, the nigger lover." He was the target of abusive mail and crank phone calls. Around Oxford there were stores and filling stations that refused to serve...
Such long-lived exercisers as Cardiologist Paul Dudley White have long since convinced doctors and laymen that lifelong exercise is good for the heart. But what of the man who slacks off in midlife? Is it safe for him to crank up again? Apparently it is, judging from a study conducted at the University of Illinois by Dr. John O. Holloszy of the U.S. Public Health Service...
They underestimated their enemy. Hoiles, now 85, may be a political crank, but he is also a newspaper pro. And he had a big bankroll to boot. His News snapped up the good comic strips, flooded rural districts with sample copies, cut subscription prices to 25? a week, and countered losses by putting out free copies of a shopping guide offered to advertisers at rock-bottom combination rates. Hoiles also strengthened his editorial staff, concentrated on local news, added a Sunday TV supplement. By 1960 the News pulled ahead in circulation and began to get advertisers back. The News still...
...struggle which began in frivolity and ended with the death of 19th century Europe, turning a golden age into an iron age. And they had been through the incredible half-century that followed, in which technology outraced the dreams of men, a new form of tyranny grew from a crank's Utopia to challenge a thousand years of Western tradition, and in which, amazingly, the promise of a new Europe sprouted from the ruins of the old. Yet that new Europe was not only for these two men, or for their generation, to build...