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...carried sleepy Daughter Amy into a car for their return to Plains. Even at dawn, some 400 townspeople awaited him. "I told you I didn't intend to lose," Carter said. Then, for the first time during the up-and-down campaign, his composure broke. He bit his lip, fought back tears, while most of his family wept. As the crowd cheered, then grew quiet, Carter conceded: "The only reason it was close was that I as a candidate was not good enough as a campaigner. But I'll make up for that as President...
...name of Yahweh. When Frederic Church painted Cotopaxi, 1862, he deliberately invoked the creation of the world-a panorama of sifting red light, boiling vapors, lakes emptying over the abyss, and a volcano in the background. Even when it was less convulsive than a Mexican volcano or the sliding lip of Niagara Falls, American nature could and did provide feelings of intense religiosity. A painting like Sandford Gifford's Kauterskill Falls, 1862, with its vast panorama of woods dissolving in gold light, is a visual counterpart to Emerson's ecstasies in the forest three dec ades earlier...
...Neil hardly looks hardy enough to be a fall girl. But lack of size is not the most surprising thing about her: O'Neil has been deaf since infancy. Her mother, a full-blooded Cherokee, taught her to lip read and helped her through public school in Wichita Falls, Texas. Always athletic, O'Neil began studying diving at the age of 15 with Dr. Sammy Lee, a two-time Olympic gold medal winner. Just when her Olympic prospects looked good, she was stricken with spinal meningitis; doctors said she would be paralyzed for life...
Such alternations tax credulity, except for this: he is the champion and he is locked into a style. He turned professional during the last days of Dwight Eisenhower's Administration, and he has fought well, sometimes brilliantly, through five presidencies. Young, he was Cassius Clay, the "Louisville Lip," establishing himself with his fists, his doggerel and his outrageous predictions. Now, four months away from his 35th birthday, he is Muhammad, the Muslim minister, pledged to peace and God. But he is also a great ticket salesman. If vulgarity sells tickets...
...Democrat Helmut Kohl has recently been castigating Social Democratic Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. One Social Democratic retort, fired off by Party Chairman Willy Brandt, is that the Christian Democrats are "oozing arrogance and stupidity with their upper-class attitudes." Schmidt, whose sharp tongue long ago earned him the nickname "the Lip," contemptuously refers to Kohl, who is Minister-President (governor) of the Rhineland-Palatinate, as "the Minister-President of where...