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Occasionally Powers' exasperation and despair overcome him and his control slips. Then he is apt to plant heavy symbols: worms, lilies, a dead dove. But for the rest, he remains the creator of a small miracle: the only man besides John Updike who can write about salvation and damnation in a world rapidly becoming trivialized by loneliness and loss of ardor, a world with an end but no amen...
...game started off ominously enough for the Crimson, as Jim Kubacki, who had a pretty fair offensive day himself (he broke Jim Stoeckel's one-game total offense record), fumbled on the third snap from center. Eleven plays and forty-seven yards later, Delaney dove over from the one to give the Lions the lead...
...that he had not been hit. Spectators screamed. Agents and police rushed toward the wisp of smoke drifting up from Moore's gun. "Lynch the bastard!" someone shouted. "Kill him now!" yelled someone else, unaware that the assailant was a woman. San Francisco Policemen Timothy Hettrich and Gary Lemos dove at Moore, knocking her to the ground. Hettrich grabbed the cylinder of the revolver so that it could not turn and bring up another bullet. Patrolman William S. Taylor grabbed her hair. "Goddamit! Goddamit!" one officer shouted as he pounded on her back...
...information out to tell their side of the story." Last week, Talbott noted, "was a classic case of negotiations becoming leakproof as all sides moved closer to agreement." In Jerusalem, Bureau Chief Donald Neff assessed the impending settlement's durability in talks with a hawk-to-dove spectrum of Israeli leaders...
...broad foreign contacts for the billions of dollars needed for arms and industrialization. A behind-the-scenes political broker in Israel's ruling Labor Party, he was instrumental in the rise of Levi Eshkol, Golda Meir and Israel's current Premier, Yitzhak Rabin. A self-proclaimed dove, Sapir favored giving up captured Arab territory in return for an early Middle East peace agreement. After leaving the government last year, he devoted his energies to running the Jewish Agency, which encourages Jews round the world to immigrate to Israel...