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...declared equally emotional Council President George Forbes: "If there is default, it will rest squarely on the shoulders of the mayor of Cleveland." A normally calm professional financial adviser to the city clenched his fist. "It's driving me crazy," he said. "This is a political default. It's not a question of finances." Thus Cleveland last week became the first major city since the Great Depression to default. And it did so not because the situation was beyond saving, but because the mayor, councilmen and bankers went into a tizzy of bickering...
...Kirmit's is?he is not much more than a green felt sock that fits over a human hand, with a wide pink split for the mouth and what look like glued-on halves of Ping Pong balls for eyes?the clenchings and wrigglings of the operator's fist can change the expression with considerable subtlety. Not simply smiles, but wistful smiles are possible. If the face is relatively stiff, like that of Kermit's formidable friend Miss Piggy ( her head is carved from a block of plastic insulating foam), then, although a certain degree of meaningful nose crinkling...
...influence landed him a job in his mid-20s as an assistant counsel to Senator Joseph McCarthy. Then and during a later stint as the relentless harrower of Jimmy Hoffa, Bobby's rough image was frozen forever in many minds: an Irish Torquemada with a face like a fist and a voice out of Warner Bros, cartoons. He ran J.F.K.'s 1960 campaign in a manner that suggested, reasonably enough, that winning mattered most. As an activist Attorney General with a brother in the White House, he inspired more fear...
...headquarters went up in flames. "This is genocide against the Christians of Lebanon," protested Chamoun. Lebanese Foreign Minister Fuad Butros rushed to Damascus in a vain attempt to arrange a ceasefire. But Syria's tough Defense Minister Mustafa Tlas responded: "The Syrian army will strike with an iron fist to destroy the Phalangist and Chamounist gangs." Asserted Radio Damascus: "Syria is impartial. We fight lawless elements within the Christian community just as we fought the Palestinians-to restore peace to Lebanon...
...schools for Angolan and Mozambican teen-agers on the Isle of Pines off the south coast of Cuba. At one of the schools, named after Angolan President Agostinho Neto, a class of uniformed children, many of them war orphans, greet "comrade visitors" by snapping to attention, giving a clenched-fist salute, and chanting: "Long live the Angolan Revolution...