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While summitry was a necessity at times in the postwar decades, its ease and electronic entertainment value have turned it into a sport of sorts that claims too much of a President's time and energy. This thought must have occurred to Jerry Ford about halfway down the sheer steps from a pagoda towering over Peking's Summer Palace, which was the breathtaking extravagance of the Ching dynasty's Dowager Empress Ci xi; she diverted $50 million worth of silver earmarked for her navy to rebuild the paradise. Ford pondered the steep descent, and his mind wandered...
...called B.U. "stronger than any Ivy League team, but I still halfway thought we could have beaten them." The turning point, he concluded, were the two ties, both in matches which he felt the Crimson should have...
...atmosphere within the stadium was moneyed and genteel. In front of my seat (halfway down the third-base line) was a tie-and-jacket, there was a tie-and-jacket to my left, and behind me and slightly to my right, two fur coats. Especially at the start of the game, it seemed as if an entire Boston Symphony Orchestra audience had mistakenly shown up, somewhat bewildered but nonetheless quite polite, at a baseball stadium. The crowd--or rather, the audience--was not so much enthusiastic as appreciative. They did not clap, they applauded; and if they did clap, they...
According to the Brigades' most recent handbook, violence is the only means by which the proletariat can take power away from the bourgeoisie. Once that transfer of power is made, the centralized government will be abolished and control will go to small local assemblies. "There can be no halfway solutions, no half measures," asserts Carmo. "That won't work. We must have either pure socialism or we will go back to fascism. The workers in Portugal have shown that they do not want central power or a central authority...
...been beaten by Fingers three times during the regular season, retaliated in the sixth. With one out, Yaz doubled halfway up the wall in left field. Fingers worked the count to 3-1 on Fisk before the sturdy Red Sox cleanup man drilled his single to center, sending Yastrzemski home with the tie-breaking...