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...degrading and sometimes adventurous experience. The rule is that if you see a line forming, you immediately join it and only inquire then what is being sold-choice items go too quickly to hesitate. The KGB is sullenly omnipresent, of course, though Soviets no longer fear so much the knock in the middle of the night. The people possess a highly developed, anarchic talent for beating the system. They arrange paper marriages so that a man or woman can get legal-residency documents for Moscow, widely considered the most desirable place in the Soviet Union to live. (The capital gets...
...That win was nice," Reiner said yesterday. "We were tired of hearing how great Princeton was." How exactly did Harvard manage to knock off the mighty Tigers? "We're a really together team and we have a lot of confidence in each other," asserted Reiner. "Most of us went out there and played the best we know...
...When it came to negotiating, what I wanted was someone to go in there and knock heads," says Messersmith. "If an athlete who has been pampered ever since he was a kid is inserted into a heavy business situation, he gets chewed up." Like many other stars, Messersmith negotiates through an agent, Herb Osmond, who enables his client to confine his pitching to the field...
...rough week." In New York, he had hoped to do far better than his poor fourth place with 35 delegates, behind Jackson with 104, Udall with 70 and a block of 65 uncommitted delegates. In Wisconsin, Carter had hoped to win by a big enough margin to knock Udall out of the race. Instead, in a contest so close that NBC and ABC at first projected Udall as the winner (see THE PRESS), Carter got 37% of the vote, Udall 36%, George Wallace 13% and Jackson...
...illegitimate, a naked man with no presidential covering, a pretender to the throne. And then there was Texas, my home, the home of both the murder and the murder of the murderer. And then there were the bigots and the dividers and the Eastern intellectuals who were waiting to knock me down before I could even begin to stand up. The whole thing was almost unbearable." But Johnson presided over the transition with such compassion and acumen that for a few months at least, he came close to achieving his lifelong ambition of getting everybody to love...