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Kohl has had trouble shaking the label of provincial politician. He had never held a federal office until he was chosen to lead the Christian Democrats. Some political observers would argue that he has deliberately cultivated the homespun image and is actually a shrewd political infighter. Though he has been offered Cabinet posts in C.D.U. governments, he has tactfully one them all down, not wanting to become too identified with any one Chancellor. Despite frequent trips abroad, he is virtually unknown outside his own country. When Kohl visited Washington last October, West German journalists gleefully pointed out wire-service reports...
...described the Weirton buyout as "a kind of homespun socialism." Rather, the story appears to be about a heartening attempt at grass-roots capitalism that could be good...
...just an appealing character speaking his own epitaph; it is Henry Fonda's annunciation as an actor, that moment when he began to shed the first impression he had made in films like The Farmer Takes a Wife-that of a shy, likable but lightweight piece of homespun-and take on the raiment of authority. Looking back now, we see that there was no one else who could have played Tom Joad, no one else who could do what Fonda did-drain the sentiment and literariness out of that speech with his drawling directness and, in the process, encompass...
...works, of course, Weirton Steel will have made a startling transformation, from one capitalist's prosperous fief to the principal U.S. enclave of-yes-a kind of homespun socialism. But Weirtonians think more in terms of preserving a place where rich, hard-working lives have been uncommonly possible. If there really is a way for every will, willful Weirton may just have a chance to live happily ever after. -By Kurt Andersen. Reported by J. Madeleine Nash/Weirton
...into a board with ten pitches. He spent six years on and off in the majors, where he was always a great crowd pleaser and sometimes still a great pitcher. In his last three innings, at 59, he struck out one, gave up one hit and no runs. A homespun philosopher, the Hall of Fame member lived by one abiding rule: "Don't look back. Something may be gaining...