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...organizer of the protest by Black athletes of the 1968 Mexico City Olympics. That boycott didn't work as well as he had hoped, but he probably gained some satisfaction from the fact that two Black athletes, Tommie Smith and John Carlos, held up their black-gloved, fist-clenched hands in the "Black power" salute while on the medal stand after winning the gold and bronze, respectively, in the 200-meter dash...
...become a slave to his father's will. The old- er man, now thin and beardless, offered at least some illumination when he described one of his techniques for persuading his child to follow his own antisocial ways. Said he: "I hit him on the forehead with my fist. I thought that was the safest way--that I'd break my hand before I had hurt him." Nichols admitted he was slow to realize this amounted to "abusive" behavior. When the weekend recess began at the completion of all testimony, the jury was left with few facts to argue...
...audience was in Moscow. For some time, Reagan's aides had been concerned that the U.S. was sending confusing signals to the Soviets; Strasbourg seemed a per- fect place to clarify American positions. Speaking on the 40th anniversary of V-E day, Reagan offered olive branches from a mailed fist. He charged that the Soviets were building first- strike nuclear weapons and vowed that the U.S. would "resist attempts by the Soviet Union to use or threaten force against others, or to impose its system on others by force." But in a conciliatory tone, Reagan said the U.S. was eager...
Needless to say, this is an allegory for Steinbrenner's New York Yankees, once the proudest team in baseball, now merely the highest paid. Bringing back that "reformed" fist baller and dehydrated bibber Billy Martin for a fourth term as mismanager, Steinbrenner has taxed the credibility of even the New York Post. Sometimes it seems that this former anonymous shipbuilder from Cleveland owns more than 37 1/2% of the Manhattan tabloids. He hovers over the + city like the Hindenburg. In quivering type befitting a disaster, his name is a standard headline: GEORGE EXPLODES. NO SURVIVORS...
...profound unrest kindled by one of the country's worst recessions in 50 years, seemed increasingly to be on the defensive. Yet, as ever, the more pressure exerted on the leadership, the deeper it dug in its heels, and the more it retreated into kragdadigheid, or a mailed-fist attitude. In an interview on ABC's Nightline program, Botha declared defiantly, "I am going to keep order in South Africa, and nobody is going to stop...