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Really, though, in this tiff generated by academics who are bad politicians and made into a donnybrook by a constituency of budding academics, the question of who is right and who is wrong is, well, an academic...
...greatest immediate result of the currency realignment will be to restore stability to world finance and end the danger of a global donnybrook in trade. Since President Nixon in August canceled the U.S. commitment to exchange dollars for gold, the values of several major currencies have been fluctuating, and uncertainty about where they would come to rest has held back world commerce. There was always a threat that in order to protect their own trade positions nations would erect beggar-thy-neighbor barriers against each other's goods and money...
BOSTON. In the beginning, Boston's mayoralty race shaped up as a political donnybrook between archenemies Kevin White and Louise Day Hicks, with Mrs. Hicks, who to many has been the Bella Abzug of the beer and backlash set, expected to be doing most of the punching. In 1967, after having served seven years as Massachusetts secretary of state, White handily defeated Mrs. Hicks for the mayoralty. In 1970, Mrs. Hicks ran for and won ex-Speaker John McCormack's old seat in Congress. By last year White's popularity had slipped so badly that when...
...words were punches, it would have been a real donnybrook. But the exchanges that took place between Muhammad All and World Heavyweight Champion Joe Frazier when they met to sign for their March 8 championship fight were strictly verbal. Frazier was contributing little to the buildup of the fight, Ali said, because "Joe Frazier never wrote no poems, never did no shuffles and never did no predicting. He don't look like a champion, he's flatfooted, he's got no rhythm and he ain't even pretty." Retorted Frazier: "Shut up, will you. Somebody call...
Despite protests from black leaders, it seems likely that the Senate will confirm Carswell, even granting his white-supremacy remarks of more than two decades ago. No one wants another Haynsworthian donnybrook, and much has changed-not least the attitudes of millions of other Americans about race -in America since 1948. Carswell wants to forget his past, just as many liberals have pleaded for their unreasoned remarks about Communism some 20 years ago to be forgotten. Republican Leader Hugh Scott seemed to sum up the Senate's attitude when he observed: "A wise man changes his mind often...