Word: exertion
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...hard to find. Bostonians, proper or improper, are accustomed to outsize heroes with outsize skills-Ted Williams, Bill Russell, Bobby Orr and, yes, even Jim Plunkett. The quiet, country-bred young man from Ottawa, Kansas (pop. 11,000), resembles none of these demigods; yet he has already begun to exert his own spell on the Hub, its congeries of suburbs and that state of mind known as New England. For beneath his placid exterior, a competitive fire burns. Says Patriot Coach Chuck Fairbanks, who saw it early: "His eyes light up when it's time to play...
...note that he is presently appealing his 12-year prison sentence stemming from extortion charges in Seattle last year. It also notes that he was indicted in 1974 on perjury charges. They were dropped. It also notes that he was indicted later in 1974 on charges of attempting to exert influence upon a public official. They were dropped because county prosecutor Moise Berger, a bumbler who has since been removed, held off-the-record conversations with the jury. The news story does not record that Warren lent Berger $15,000 to run his 1968 campaign for the prosecutor's office...
...make any real progress on Rhodesia is much more doubtful. South Africa has become Rhodesia's only lifeline for its imports and exports, not to mention the military supplies it needs for pursuing its four-year-old war against guerrillas. So Vorster is obviously in a position to exert strong influence on the Salisbury regime if he should choose to do so. Prime Minister Ian Smith recently rejected a British plan for a two-year timetable leading to black majority rule. But he might be willing, at Vorster's and Kissinger's urging, to submit to another...
Mesmer, 42, studied at the University of Vienna, where he wrote a doctoral dissertation On the Influence of the Planets. He argued that celestial bodies exert a gravitational force on an invisible magnetic fluid that exists in all living organisms. Some people fall ill because they are deficient in this fluid, Mesmer says, but can be cured by a transfer of fluid from another body...
...would prove, according to this theory, that the only way a Communist Party could attain power in a democracy is by adhering to Western political ideals. That might well be the case, but it remains unknown what kind of pressure the Soviet Union might still be able to exert on its wayward ally, and also what kind of pressure Berlinguer might have to face from his hard-lining Moscow-oriented comrades within the party. Campaign promises, as Italian voters have reason to know, are not written in stone...