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Arias proved to be a strong opponent despite some definite handicaps of age: he is nearly blind, walks with considerable difficulty and speaks in a barely audible, hoarse whisper. His legend, however, preceded him. He has been elected President three times (in 1940, 1949 and 1968) and overthrown by the military three times. Yet people remember him for having declared Spanish the official language of Panama and for originally giving women the vote in 1941. Arias' campaign was unabashedly anti-Communist and pro-Reagan. Nonetheless, many Panamanians suspected that Arias might be overthrown again...
Barely 20, working as the understudy to Carol Haney in Pajama Game, she had her chance to live the theater's most enduring legend: Haney was injured, and MacLaine went out a chorus girl and came back a star. Producer Hal Walk's was in the audience the night MacLaine first stepped in and soon signed her to a multiyear movie contract. Within months she had been cast in her first picture, Alfred Hitchcock's The Trouble with Harry (now playing around the country in re-release). By 1969 she was one of Hollywood's highest...
...green place that absorbs, preserves and reflects back upon us, through the heroically magnified deeds of its adepts, the purity with which, as children open to and eager for enchantment, we first encountered it. This game is a mind game, an ideal, and one that seems an almost lost legend for which people nowadays mourn, as they do for many things that graced a more leisurely and miraculous time. But baseball is also a reality, a game played by ungrammatical men who, like most people, have grown up without necessarily growing wise. They chew tobacco, indulge in alcoholic beverages...
...successes. So did Franklin Roosevelt in domestic policy during his struggle to lift America out of the Depression. John Kennedy's first year was one of almost continuous defeat, but fortunately, it was a year also marked by unceasing experiment in diplomacy and military improvement. In the American legend, the discouragements with men and War heaped on Abraham Lincoln in his early years of the Civil War sent him into fits of melancholia. But he always climbed out and tried again. He did something. That is not the least of the characteristics that kept Richard Nixon at the center...
Teddy Carll, an idealistic white Mississippian, was a hero of the civil rights marches in the '60s who nearly died when his car was run off the road by enraged rednecks. Did die, clinically, the legend has it; doctors brought him back from beyond the edge. Should have died, probably; his life since then has been a washout. This is not because of his injuries, which left a facial scar but did no other permanent damage. It is because, as Novelist Rosellen Brown sketches him, he is temperamentally unsuited to be anything but the star of a protest movement...