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...heyday of the Washington column, Lippmann embodied the word pundit. He made colossal misjudgments but never lacked audacity. As a young man, back in 1915, he defined his craft ("You are just a puzzled man making notes about what you think") and admonished political writers: "The truth is you're afraid to be wrong. And so you put on these airs and use these established phrases ... You cannot be right by holding your breath and taking precautions...
...newsreel footage from Hitler's heyday? A movie or television drama about the Third Reich? No. The scenes were from recently filmed documentaries about neo-Nazi organizations in West Germany. Although their numbers are minuscule, and their threat to democracy in the Federal Republic nonexistent, the neo-Nazis have become more openly militant in recent months - inspired, perhaps, by the brazen terrorism of the leftist Red Army Faction...
...Lions, however, are hankering after their first share of the league title since the heyday of Jim McMillian, and tomorrow night in the IAB you can expect them to show considerable more life than a halibut on a slab...
February is a month for honoring great lecturers. Earlier this week we celebrated the birthday of Abe Lincoln, a great hit on the lecture circuit in his heyday. No one who heard it ever forgot his Gettysburg Address. "Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth," he said. Well, the thought was a good one, though somewhat optimistic...
...first base. The scene at Williams' alma mater, Hoover High School in San Diego, will air in the spring on the syndicated TV show Greatest Sports Legends, to which Seaver is playing host this year. At lunch in Manhattan to pitch the show, Williams, 59, who in his heyday earned $125,000 a year, defended today's well-bankrolled athletes, like, say, the $500,000-plus-a-year Reggie Jackson. "I'm envious," sighed the Kid. "I wish I'd a bit more business sense when I was playing...