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There are lots of good reasons for Kennedy's reluctance. He has a powerful Senate career in his grasp. And a challenge to Carter would focus attention on two extremely troublesome areas of his personal life: his wife Joan's health and, of course, Chappaquiddick...
Nowhere is the fact that man's (or woman's) reach too often exceeds his/ her grasp so dangerous as in weekend sports. A full-blown heart attack can happen right there in the middle of the doubles court, as the determined jock refuses to admit fatigue or acknowledge warning chest pains and keeps playing...
...naming to surreal heights and depths. The President's wish to stick to Jimmy as his official name perhaps ingratiated him more with the public than any other step he has taken-and may, in the end, have hinted more than he intended at his fuzzy grasp of presidential power...
George Patey is a public relations man whose reach exceeds his grasp, but within his grasp, he has the entire wall against which Al Capone's gunmen shot down seven rival gangsters on St. Valentine's Day of 1929. Patey was in his native Vancouver one morning in 1967 when he heard on the radio, that the famous wall on Chicago's North Clark Street was about to be demolished. He immediately got on the telephone and, for a price he keeps to himself, bought it. Says he: "They tore down the wall and shipped...
...unity with other branches of the Christian faith; and that he steadfastly refused to give in to the efforts of rightists such as Archbishop Lefebvre to erode the reforms he began. Perhaps historians will manage to forget all this, and still judge Paul a conservative, a traditionalist unwilling to grasp the changing currents in the world of faith. More likely, however, they will see him as a cautious man, a man dedicated to change but unwilling, or unable, to let the great reforms he fostered grow out of control, to tear apart an already deeply divided Church...