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...power-hungriest Presidents were Teddy Roosevelt (registering 8.3 power images in every thousand words), John F. Kennedy (8.3), Harry Truman (7.3) and Lyndon B. Johnson (6.8). In need for achievement, Nixon led the list with an 8.5 rating, well ahead of Johnson (7.5), Kennedy (6.8) and Teddy Roosevelt (6.2). Despite his reputation as a forceful President, Franklin D. Roosevelt does not stand remarkably high in either category: 5.2 in achievement need, 6.3 in need for power...
Guided by steady, low-keyed Manager Gil Hodges, the Mets' young prodigies are the happiest, hungriest, hustlingest team in baseball, and they seem to have acquired the emotional wherewithal to stand up 'under pressure'. They demonstrated that the last time they faced the Cubs, when they won four of six crucial games. In the opener of a three-game set at Shea Stadium, their home ballpark?the first crucial series ever to involve the Mets?Chicago's crack righthander, Ferguson Jenkins, entered the ninth inning with a 3-1 lead. Minutes later he stalked off the field in disgust...
...threat of starvation is a constant companion of India's 480 million people, many of whom live at a bare subsistence level. With the problem looming even larger than usual this year, the free world last week rallied to feed its hungriest member before threat turns into reality. The U.S., which has already started moving 4,500,000 tons of grain to India, granted a $100 million loan for economic aid. Burma and Thailand agreed to sell more of their rice to India. France, West Germany and Japan started sending powdered milk and vitamins for children and nursing mothers...
Change is not limited to the cities. In the hungriest part of Spain, the forsaken valley of Las Hurdes. a few thousand peo ple for generations had no contact with the outside; their inbreeding was said to produce malformed children, and to all Spaniards, Las Hurdes became a synonym for decadence. In the region today, riggers are laying a power line across the valley, a hospital is being built, fruit trees grow in the irrigated fields near a power...
...actor liked to assure his rare interviewers: "Between pictures, there is no Lon Chaney.'' In a large sense, that was so. There was no Chaney. but there was a solitary fisherman, a bodkin-eyed amateur movie cameraman, a proficient wigmaker, a talented musician. Hollywood's hungriest reader-and always, the actor testing his disguises. One morning, got up as a Chinese laundryman, Chaney boarded a Los Angeles trolley, deliberately courted a quarrel with the conductor and, after convincing himself that he was convincing in his part, soothed the ruffled streetcarman with a cigar and a lofty chat...