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Although nearly two-thirds of Argentine voters elected him to a third term as President last September, after 18 years in exile, he was unable to reconcile the smoldering class differences that have brought the nation of 24 million to new civil chaos. While retaining some of his old flair, Perón seemed to lack his old ruthlessness. He hesitated to take strong action against the terror ist leftist guerrillas, whose kidnapings of businessmen had frightened away foreign investors. He wisely imposed a tough "social pact," an agreement between employers and workers that amounted to a wage-price freeze, momentarily...
Cold Calculation. Unlike Texas Millionaire Hunt, Davidson has not had a family fortune to back his enterprises. What the son of a poor Montana farmer has lacked in money, though, he has more than made up in flair, shrewd business sense and sheer moxie. He set the tone for his climb to fortune eight years ago when he was running a modest law office in Southern California. "If people came in my office with money," Davidson says, "I took their cases...
Botched Story. Whole columns were deservedly devoted to such coups. But "The Lyons Den" more typically had the flair of a railway timetable. Lyons' prose strained toward the average, and his penchant for missing, mangling or omitting entirely the kicker of anecdotes was the despair of his sources. During the World War II point system of rationing managed by the Office of Price Administration, George S. Kaufman said that Lyons "missed so many points that he was under investigation by the OPA." One botched Lyons story: after Noel Coward had made some disparaging remarks about Brooklyn and earned...
Actually, a bit of evangelistic flair could prove useful in a church that is steadily losing its historical grip on the nation. Although the Church of England claims a baptized membership of 28 million people,* only 2.6 million are active enough to vote on parish affairs, and a mere 1.8 million worship at Easter. An equally important sign of church malaise is the declining interest in church work. Only 373 men entered the ministry in 1973, compared with 636 ten years before...
Herbie kept up his commentary on the game, this time displaying a flair for the dramatic a la Cossell or maybe even Johnny Most. As Jim Thomas's throw from third went wildly out into right field in a close final inning, Herbie went into action...