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...asked me if I would support him???"join my team," as he put it. I told him I could not, at that time, become a part of his political household, but that with the exception of the draft issue, I would be supportive of his basic policy...
...efforts to impose authority were welcomed with restrained enthusiasm by the Soviet Union. According to some Polish government sources, Jaruzelski was pressed by the Soviets to make the move. About a month ago, according to these accounts, he was given an ultimatum by the Kremlin. Soviet representatives told him???and him alone?that the Polish party was no longer in control, that the Sejm (parliament) was running wild, and that if he did not act to restore order, the Warsaw Pact would do it for him. Though Jaruzelski emphasized last week that Poland remained a sovereign state, many people regarded...
Koch may not have time for history, but he would like to make history, and there is a good chance that he will. History, in turn, has made him???the immigrant boy, the shoe salesman, the Stevensonian, civil rights-defending liberal Democrat "mugged by reality" in Editor Irving Kristol's phrase, until eventually he became the most recognizable kind of figure in modern American politics: the neoconservative, the crypto-Republican, the Tough-Man Entrepreneur
Rune Borg won the tournament. His son rushed up to congratulate him???and asked him to claim the racquet. "There were other prizes on the table," the elder Borg remembers, "and I wanted to have a joke on Bjorn. So I picked up another prize, a fishing rod. His face fell so, he looked like he would cry. I put down the rod real quick and picked up the tennis racquet and said, This will be my prize...
...other tenor in modern times has hit the opera world with such seismic force. At 6 ft. and nearly 300 lbs., "Big P," as Soprano Joan Sutherland calls him, is more than lifesize, as is everything about him???ins clarion high Cs, his fees of $8,000 per night for an opera and $20,000 for a recital, his Rabelaisian zest for food and fun. "He is not primo tenore, " says San Francisco Opera General Director Kurt Herbert Adler. "He is primissimo tenore...