Word: greats
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...vice president, then neared the summit of global finance when President Richard Nixon brought him back to Treasury to defend the dollar against attacks from abroad. Volcker did all he could, at one point flying 31,000 miles in five days. But the pressure on the dollar was too great: twice Volcker had to preside over the humiliation of the dollar being devalued...
...remember a play made by the Yankees' Phil Rizzuto in the World Series of the '40s. He is also a dedicated fisherman who tries to get away once a year to try his luck in Canada. According to a friend: "He's not a great fisherman. He thinks...
Washington is troubled by the new atmosphere in the area. In recent months there have been fears that the Caribbean has become an arena for superpower rivalry, with Havana, as usual, acting as Moscow's surrogate. Says a U.S. official: "There is a great concern that America and its ideological values are in retreat. If the Cubans were to lure the little island countries of the eastern Caribbean into their sphere of influence, it would send shock waves throughout Central America all the way to Cape Horn...
Although the interview, done in Fallaci's characteristically provocative style does not reflect it, she told TIME last week that she was impressed by Khomeini's great dignity and splendid bearing It was the first time that I have ever felt charisma." She was surprised by "the difference between the reality I saw there surrounding the Ayatullah and the way the Western press reports on him. The reality is that the people want...
...November 1936, an American artist in New York scrawled a note to a friend in Paris. "This evening," it announced with bitter formality, "I leave for the great beyond." He posted it, went to his room and swallowed an overdose of veronal. Thus, at the age of 55, died Patrick Henry Bruce, aesthete, Virginia dandy, misfit and expatriate, a direct descendant of Patrick Henry and one of the most interesting minor painters of early modernism. In Paris, where he lived for 30 years, Bruce had helped Matisse set up his art school. He was a friend of Robert and Sonia...