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...recalls Yankee Yogi Berra, "I could always tell how he had done when we followed the Tigers into a town. If we got stools in the dressing room. Hutch had won. If we got kindling, he had lost." But for all his anger, Hutch the manager is a gentle despot, careful not to dress down his players in public, never to ridicule their mistakes. "You can't go up to a man who's making $25,000 a year," he says, "and start joking about his work. It just isn't funny...
...lanky fellow with a fanatic's fiery eyes, Geneticist Trofim Lysenko was Stalin's favorite scientist. Thirteen years ago, he blossomed before the world as the self-taught despot of Soviet biological science, proclaiming his fantastic dogma that Communists could change nature at will. Riding high, he terrorized his rivals, shipping to prison or disgrace all Soviet biologists who defended the orthodox axiom that basic traits are transmitted by genes that cannot be changed by training the parent organism. Lysenko's dictatorship died with Stalin. But now Lysenko is back in bloom, not as a declaimer...
...prison rooms" for students "with advanced ideas of equality and democracy" in its compound adjoining University College and public floggings of such students were a frequent practice. The hanging of corpses will not keep the people of Ethiopia for long in ignorance and poverty at the feet of a despot...
...resident adviser in the various frat houses. "Ten fraternities have done this voluntarily; with the great improvement this practice has brought about, we hope it will grow and expand," Peters says. Still, for all its committees and representatives, the Dean's office likes to posture itself as a benevolent despot. Peters explains, "There is a certain number of necessary rules. We try to interfere as little as possible with student affairs...
Congratulations on your excellent, impartial article about Despot Hoffa [Aug. 31]. You did it expertly and pointedly...