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...game. The spectacle is in marked contrast to the atmosphere at Maryland when Driesell arrived three seasons ago. Back then, the hapless Terrapins could barely sell a ticket, much less win a game. So Driesell staged his own gate-building, one-man show. In times of crisis, he would leap off his Hollywood director's chair stationed next to the bench and fall on his knees-or tear off his jacket and stomp on it. In more joyful moments, he would dance the boogaloo and even lead the crowd in cheers. To confuse opponents, he once had his players...
...successive flights, but the best of the images grew into a frieze of transcendence, chiseled on the edges of the mind like Wordsworth's intimations of immortality: the readings from Genesis as Apollo 8 spun toward its rendezvous with the dark side of the moon; the "giant leap for mankind" as Neil Armstrong set his booted foot into the moon dust; the vision of the earth from space, a milky sapphire hanging alone and fragile in the blackness; and then Apollo 17 -a pillar of fire cutting up into the night, spreading a carpet of orange clouds...
...that the bureaucrats seemed to be taking over, he forced a return to basic revolutionary principles, often at chaotic cost to the country. He skirmished with intellectuals, with army professionals who thought that modern weapons were more important than revolutionary élan, with economic planners who thought the Great Leap Forward to instant industrialization was dangerous nonsense (which...
...nations to ten on Jan. 1. And Continental businessmen are watching with concern the emergence of a "Japanese challenge," as names like Toyota, Sony and Hitachi rise across Europe. Everywhere the conviction is growing that companies with conservative, nationalistic managements will be left behind in Europe's competitive leap forward-and that firms with impatient, internationally minded young executives will command the future...
...Nelson's leap in the polls--he was a close second to Linsky in a poll published by the Boston globe last month--has been attributed to impressive personal campaigning, the services of a top Nixon political strategist, and a determined media effort. Volunteer support has come largely from libertarian Harvard and MIT students, and members of the Brookline synagogue headed by his father. Rabbi Zev Nelson...