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Despite its fluffy title, I'm OK -- You're OK was one of the more persuasive pop psychology works to come out of California during the 1960s. Author Thomas A. Harris managed the intellectual feat of combining the conventional sunlit optimism of the period with a few of the darker strains of Freudian and Christian thinking. The result: a surprising, 15 million-copy best seller...
...daily life, creating a host of often debilitating psychological and social distortions. According to one Afrikaner, one of the first lessons white South Africans receive in their military service is to expect Blacks guerillas to return their fire; many whites would otherwise have considered Blacks incapable of such a feat...
...Speaking of triple crowns, only fifteen players have accomplished that feat in the 20th century. In one of those years, both triple crowns were claimed. The two players who did it played in the same city. For five points each...
...Iron Horse, 200-Ib. Lou Gehrig, played in a record 2130 consecutive games. A 148-Ib, player in second on the major league consecutive games list, with a 1307-game streak. This dimunitive shortstop managed the feat, despite being traded in the middle of his streak. For ten points name...
...fact, carried out his immense logistical mission. He had managed to whip a sprawling company into shape, and saved American autoworkers' jobs by the tens of thousands. Congress had fussed. The White House had postured. Out in the Rust Belt, Iacocca proved he could make things work. His feat was by no means single-handed: the Government's $1.5 billion guarantee of Chrysler loans was essential. Still, it was like the underdog pool player in a high-stakes game who announces an impossible bank shot involving awkward, oblique angles and chancy ricochets, and then does it. All over the country...