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...flight crashed near Lisbon. Her marriage to the pilot who saved her life had a fairy-tale flavor, and the optimism she maintained through more than 30 operations on her crippled legs touched millions, especially when she sang such sentimental favorites as I'll Walk Alone and Climb Ev'ry Mountain...
...impression one night when I asked him about the political process. I said, "The people complain you're not a good enough politician, and they want you to do well, Mr. President," and he said, "I can't imagine sitting around and doing things the way Lyndon Johnson and Ev Dirksen used to do, trading judgeships." For me at least, that was quite revealing: it settled the way he really felt, and this perception of the process as something he wouldn't do. That's a problem--not that you have to trade judgeships, and somebody else is doing...
...name was familiar, but his American hosts had trouble with the pace. In three weeks, erudite, easygoing Ze'ev Binyamin Begin, 37, son of Israel's Premier, managed flying visits to 20 U.S. campuses on a private, expenses-only trip to bring "the message of Israel" to students and, it was hoped, offset what his countrymen see as rising anti-Israel sentiment among American youth. "People don't have to agree with the Israeli government," conceded Begin, "but I think we have a valid position." Binyamin is a geologist (with a Ph.D. from Colorado State University...
...Ev'rything's goin' my way": so go the lyrics. What nook or dell of the U.S.A. in the shadow of the 1980s echoes them? Doubt and the rage of impotence stalk the land. People worry about whether they can gas up to cross a state, let alone found one. With three trusty assistants -his horse, his saddle and his gun-the cowboy hero of Oklahoma!, Curly (Laurence Guittard), is his own man. Where is the man who would dare or would be permitted to carve out his personal destiny that way today? There is a winning...
Have flashy flunkeys ev'rywhere...