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...recent report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, given Austria the highest sustained growth rate (7.1% in 1970) of any developed country except Japan. That record has helped convince middleclass, small-farmer and white-collar groups that Kreisky's Socialists are not necessarily uncultured rogues who dash around expropriating the property of innocent industrialists. In fact, the first opposition group to issue a congratulatory statement of sorts after last week's victory was the Austrian Industrialists' Association...
...finally scored with 46 seconds left in the quarter on a beautiful 27-yard dash around left end by reservd quarterback Barret Rosser...
...Connally, life has indeed been sweet. Beginning with his hardscrabble boyhood on a Texas farm, he has been irresistibly drawn to wealth and power and has managed, by an adroit mixture of dash and obsequence, to gain both. As Lyndon B. Johnson's Wolsey for more than 30 years and a three-term Democratic Governor of Texas, he learned well the means of acquiring and using political power. Now he is one of the most potent and magnetic personalities in Richard Nixon's Washington, the chief designer of Phase I, the prime enforcer of Phase II, and by most accounts...
...haven't even started to touch the creative genius of these people. We try to think how to prevent a crime, but we can't think like them." The best deterrents to car thieves are a locking steering column and an extra ignition switch hidden somewhere under the dash. For a thief whose best cover is a quick getaway, it usually isn't worth the wait to find the extra switch...
There is, for a start, Russia's General Boris Sheremetev, who panicked when he was attacked by Charles XII of Sweden in the battle of Narva (1700). Sheremetev made a dash to safety with his entourage across the Narva River; in consequence, more than 1,000 of his leaderless troopers were swept over a waterfall and drowned...