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Your image of a rugby player probably place him somewhere between Attila the Hun and Ivan the Terrible on your spectrum of nasty people. But I've roomed with three rugby players in my three years here and my fingers can still type, so I think we can dispel that notion...
...keep Republican Edward W. Brooke in the U.S. Senate. He had run into deep trouble with the conservatives who control his own party because he supported the Panama Canal treaties and federally financed abortions for poor women. Brooke's messy court fight with ex-Wife Remigia also damaged hun politically and buoyed the chances of his opponent, Conservative Avi Nelson, a radio talk show host...
...with crime and decline. During his campaign for a second four-year term in 1975, for instance, the blustery former police chief offered Philadelphians a typically unpunctuated promise: "Just wait after November you'll have a front row seat because I'm going to make Attila the Hun look like a faggot...
...Hahm Suk Hun, 75, a venerable leader of South Korea's Quakers and an advocate of nonviolence, had been imprisoned by the Japanese, the Russians and then by the authoritarian Syngman Rhee regime. Now he knew he faced imprisonment again. And so, each day during his trial, he came to the Seoul courtroom dressed in beige funeral robes to symbolize the death of his freedom-and of Korean democracy. When the four-month trial finally ended, he and 17 distinguished co-defendants were sentenced to terms ranging from two to eight years each. Said Hahm: "These were the best...
...John Ehrlichman; Knopf only knows where it will appear next. All of which prompted Christian Science Monitor Columnist-at-Large (and TIME Books Contributor) Melvin Maddocks to weigh in last week with excerpts from a recently discovered 5th century manuscript titled I Was Never Really Close to Attila the Hun. Samples...