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Heykal's ouster is a clear sign that Arab governments, and the Egyptians in particular, are increasingly marching to an American drumbeat in pursuit of a resolution of their conflict with Israel. And more and more, the desired resolution appears to be peaceful coexistence rather than military conquest...
Saddened Man. Whatever the origin of the resignation rumor, it quickly developed a momentum of its own, building up a drumbeat of pressure on Agnew beyond the immediate exigencies of his situation. When Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter phoned Agnew to encourage his old friend, he found himself talking to a weary and saddened man. Reported Carter: "He said that he and his family were under tremendous pressure and that he felt like he was fighting a division with a platoon...
...bleak altar half hidden by incense smoke holds down the front of the stage. Shaman figures appear, chanting to a kind of voodoo drumbeat. On the altar, the body of a child is laid. The darkness is pierced by a primal scream. A priest plunges his hand into the human sacrifice and lifts out the heart, thrusting it, like a savage challenge, toward the civilized middle-class audience at Minneapolis' Tyrone Guthrie Theater...
...right time in the right role, is his fundamental resource. As a great actor, he achieves something new in every part?something of himself reborn, fathered by insight, nurtured by skill and imagination. Scott also offers something more. Always, just below the surface, there is an incessant drumbeat of anger. Says Jose Ferrer, who directed him in The Andersonville Trial on Broadway: "It's a concentrated fury, a sense of inner rage, a kind of controlled madness...
...into the field." Moreover, Nixon claimed, the disruption of enemy supply lines already "assures even more the success of our troop-withdrawal program." Nixon hinted that in April he may announce an acceleration of the present withdrawal pace of 12,500 men per month. Complaining about "a drumbeat of suggestion . . . night after night on television" that the Laos incursion "isn't going to work," he told newsmen that if he is proved right "what you say now doesn't make any difference...