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...DENT...
...American Spectator (circ. 22,500). In 1966 Founder and Editor R. Emmett Tyr rell Jr., 36, sent Bill Buckley, whom he had never met, a check for $264,000 to pay off National Review's debt. Tyrrell, then 22, was an Indiana University graduate" stu dent with some $27 in the bank. Knowing a well-intentioned hoax when he saw one, an amused Buckley called him up and soon encouraged Tyrrell to convert his small, off-campus conservative newspaper into a witty, sprightly national monthly. The latest issue features Christmas book recommendations from former President Richard Nixon...
...armed forces and the police have in the past made scarcely a dent in the bloodletting. Why, then, should the generals think they can put down the rising wave of terrorism since they have come to power? For one thing, they plan to reorganize the police force, making it as free as possible of political factionalism, and they are hoping that judges and prosecutors under the junta will be less fearful of threats and reprisals so that they will hand down stiffer sentences...
...very hopeful I am going to dent the South. Ford got more white votes in the South than Carter, but Carter was more successful with the blacks, and that was the edge. I would like to feel that I could get more black votes. I think we have more to offer than this Administration has. In addition, I think that maybe we can get a bigger turnout of whites for our side, and that does not call for racism. I am cautiously optimistic...
...appeared destined for a title in the A.L. East, allow the despised Yankees to catch up with them down the stretch, forcing a dramatic one-game playoff. In a contest laced with unexpected twists--including a home run by Bucky Dent which turned the tide--the Sox fall, 5-4, as Yaz pops out in the bottom of the ninth with the potential tying run on third base...