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Tthe Prime Minister-designate, a tall and dour man, had little cheer to offer his fellow politicians. Spain's young democracy was entering a perilous new era, he warned. Spaniards were disenchanted and pessimistic, the economic situation was "bitter and hard." In those gloomy terms, Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo, 54...
When he could play, Bill Walton was the Man Mountain of basketball, a flame-haired, 6-ft. 11-in., 225-lb. human wall beneath the basket. The true measure of his greatness was the glint in his eyes, the concentrated, almost maniacal fury that burned when he leaped to block...
Viguerie presents its recent successes as the return of the prodigal son. It is a "young, vital" movement that will lead America back to greatness, over and above the inertia of the established Republican Party. Liberals, he says, are very nearly traitors. "It is not conservatives but liberals who oppose...
On April 7, 1927, Charles de Gaulle and his friend, André Malraux, saw the Paris premiere of a new movie. At its end, the two great-men-to-be were on their feet, cheering. Malraux remembered De Gaulle waving his long arms and crying, "Bravo, magnifique!" It is said...
Some are born great, some have greatness thrust upon them, and some have fathers like Hiao-tsiun Ma. A musical pedagogue who migrated from China to Paris in the '30s, Papa Ma started teaching Yo-Yo (Yo means friendship in Chinese) at the age of four, with a 1/16-size...