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...Leonid Brezhnev, Nikolai Podgorny, Aleksei Kosygin-were downcast as they stood by the flower-covered bier in Moscow's imposing Trade Union House. While a string orchestra played funeral dirges, thousands of workers, soldiers and bureaucrats filed past the medal-bedecked dais for a last look at the jut-jawed countenance of Marshal Andrei Antonovich Grechko, Soviet Defense Minister and architect of the Kremlin's modern-day military might...
...From his early, loveless childhood, he sought his outlet in domination through leadership-first in sports, then in battle. During World War II, his unflagging confidence combined with a gift for showmanship gave Britons a needed boost in morale. His trademark beret and scruffy turtlenecks, as well as his jut-jawed, wisecracking impatience with routine, became international emblems of the tough, get-the-job-done spirit of the Allied war effort...
...silhouettes of dancing women that look like the figures on the Hillbilly Shak at the fair, boasts continual striptease. Women with names like Tiffany Taylor and Sandy Beach parade along an elevated runway inside a long oval bar with the fluid stride of Miss Americas--they just tend to jut their pelvises a little farther forward. Their bodies are shivered by strobe lighting and their images are tossed between parallel mirrors, but the men rarely strain their necks to watch these dancers. Their nakedness is monotonous and distant. There are other women roving the floor who will buy a customer...
...believe that Shirley Temple has just been installed as our 38th president. Rather than reading about Gerald Ford's congressional record on civil rights, his position on welfare, his views on economics and foreign affairs, we get the scoop on Betty Ford's wardrobe, stories about Jerry's jut-jawed years as a college football player, vignettes of ex-neighbors in the president's home town, and inside reports on the crowds gathered in Lafayette Park across from the White House...
...both the bold Progressives, who stole the opposition's thunder, and Vorster, who showed unseemly scorn for their party on election day. Happening upon the Prime Minister at a polling booth, Vorster's United Party opponent, Elias Olivier, approached him with a greeting. In response, the jut-jawed apostle of kragdadigheid jeered: "Go play marbles, young man"-and he refused even to shake Olivier's hand...