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...been striding angrily around the White House, frustrated over his inability to free the 50 American hostages in Tehran and outraged over the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. He had been uncharacteristically short-tempered with aides, sometimes snapping at them for no good reason. On occasion he seemed distant and depressed. He prayed more often than usual. Finally, this phase of Jimmy Carter's time of trial seemed to end last week as he emerged from the White House to try seriously to take charge of the nation's fortunes...
...dressing room beneath the stands, the roar of the 103,985 spectators rose and fell like the sound of distant breakers. Then, suddenly, the game was over-and the first black-and-gold jerseys appeared at the end of the floodlit passageway leading from the Rose Bowl playing field. The huge Pittsburgh Steelers ran with mincing steps, cleats sliding nervously on the concrete. Their eyes glittered with exhilaration, and some threw back their heads and whooped triumphantly...
...looks too easy-all you need to do is wave to illiterate crowds, give your support to a group of uncontrollable "students," and blast fiery criticisms to a distant superpower-to get selected TIME'S Man of the Year...
...OVER THE COUNTRY, they sit there with cold eyes and pursed lips, washed faces nursed by distant images of brushfires and mobs heating up the streets, gunpops out of nowhere, tanks cranking through mountains, and the whole world shouting curses at...the camera...
...Giao Thong the night of Compella's death, is retired at Sea Island, Ga., living gently off his pension and his wife's inheritance. His mind is free to pursue W.H. Auden and Thomas Love Peacock, but his soul, forged at West Point, still hears distant thunder. "Leadership is never good when it is self-conscious," he says. "The President should respond instinctively to events -but the instinct is really educated intellection, and it has to be harnessed to a natural appetite for decision...