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...storm, firmly in control of the rank-and-file delegates, many of whom would like to see her act even tougher than she has. "I will not change just to court popularity," she declared in a stirring speech at the end of the conference, throwing down the gauntlet. "There are those who say our nation no longer has the stomach for the fight. I think I know our people. They do!" Her exhortation brought the delegates to their feet, cheering, clapping, roaring their approval...
...volunteer couches his argument in the language of national security ("Regard foreign aid as a crucial investment," and "Stop giving up nations to the Soviets," he instructs) and not morality, his conclusions are those of a decent, committed American. It is the only time he really throws down the gauntlet at the feet of American conservatives, which may explain why it stands out like a Guardian Angel on a half-empty subway...
...Hatfield and McCoy feud between N.Y. and L.A. is fueled at Broadway's Biltmore Theater by Furth's comic sniper fire. In Director Gene Saks' nimble hands, the characters suffer the gauntlet of Pacific perils from mudslides to brushfires to shudderingly mirthful earthquakes. Furth's people are antic and simpatico. Mae (Betty Garrett) has been an offstage mother to her orchestra conductor son since he first brandished a baton. That he is 40 and a bachelor mortifies her, but not as much as having blurted out on a TV interview that he was not a homosexual...
With the flourish of a man assured of his political popularity and the righteousness of his electoral mandate, the President last week threw down the gauntlet to Congress. Said Ronald Reagan at his press conference: "I am asking Congress today to deliver to my desk before the August recess not one, but two bills-a spending bill and a tax bill." Determined to alter the direction of Federal Government and, as he put it, "rescue the economy from high inflation and high unemployment," Reagan has become impatient with those Congressmen who have flinched at supporting his new economic proposals. "There...
That was understandable. The Americans had been divided by their captors into at least two groups for transportation to the airport in buses with blackened windows. The Americans then were run through a gauntlet of chanting militants. While some hostages thought the dozens of militants forming a corridor to shout "Death to America!" at them were just performing for propaganda effect, others were genuinely frightened and reported that they had been kicked and shoved during their last steps on Iranian soil...