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...Ford Motor Co. wanted to give each of the prisoners a new car. There were sure to be other offers, and Pentagon officers sometimes found themselves squirming a bit at the spectacle. President Nixon struck the right note when he said, "This is a time that we should not grandstand it; we should not exploit...
...both his main strength and his mam weakness. Says one colleague: "Mansfield tries to lead within the confines and strictures of this goddam institution, but we need stronger leadership." His Republican counterpart, Minority Leader Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania, has been similarly criticized. A pipe-puffing moderate, Scott can grandstand if necessary but prefers low-key methods. He and Mansfield are good friends and work well together, despite certain differences on the Administration and the Viet Nam War. Mansfield, a harsh critic of the Nixon Administration and an outspoken foe of the Viet Nam War, now seems intent on restoring Congress...
...been Vidal's stock in trade. But in two previously uncollected pieces he demonstrates a humane, empathetic mastery of so-called personal journalism. In "The Death of Mishima," he blends his own acute sense of mortality with a meditation on the significance of the Japanese writer's grandstand suicide in 1971. In the end, it is not Yukio Mishima's writings that impress Vidal but the romantic act of conditioning his body for death. Ritual suicide is not Vidal's own cup of tea, though he is in poignant sympathy with the Japanese. "Worshiping the flesh...
...recalls Clark, "consisted of the single-wing quarterback releasing a pass in my general direction, then-being a good Christian gentleman-getting down on his knees to say a prayer." God apparently did not listen to quarterbacks' prayers in those days, and Clark soon went back to the grandstand as a constant spectator and sometime sport reporter. Last week he was on familiar turf, interviewing Joe Namath for our cover story...
Spitz and the other 11,999 athletes from 124 nations opened the Olympiad under the bright Bavarian sunlight in Munich's vast acrylic-domed stadium. The national teams paraded by the grandstand in a panoply of colors as massed bands played modern dance tunes instead of the traditional martial anthems. The Olympic flame, carried some 3,500 miles by an international team of 5,976 runners, was borne to the torch by Gunter Zahn, 18, West German runner. West German President Gustav Heinemann officially initiated the games with the prescribed 14-word pronunciamento: "I declare open the Olympic Games celebrating...