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...Georgia farm, he feels entitled to declare: "This country has always been a place where anyone who was willing to work at it could rise up to some degree." He is antiracist: "If someone asked my wife to sit in the back of the bus, I'd be the meanest man alive." He explains part of the reason he is voting for Nixon: "The political values of this country are mainly middleclass. Because this group believes in human rights, people have sometimes been too anxious to right any human wrong that occurs, and they have given the Federal Government powers...
Since they arrived in South Viet Nam seven years ago, South Korean troops have gained a reputation as the toughest and meanest of the allied forces. Off duty, they arm-wrestle and break layers of bricks with a single karate-like chop. In battle they are fierce, frightening the peasants by the zeal with which they patrol their zones of operation, which are mainly in the central coastal region and include vital sections of Highways 1,19 and 21. It is an area that is considered "hostile"; much of it continues to be controlled by the Viet Cong. Even...
Besides helping them to help others, the course has benefited the bartenders themselves. A woman graduate who admitted she was once "the meanest barmaid in town" learned to be less provocative and more conciliatory. Recently she talked one patron out of shooting her husband and another out of wielding a knife in a fight at the pool table in her tavern...
...began publishing monthly articles in major magazines detailing the success of the FBI against the most famous criminals of the day, with titles such as "Buzzard in Disguise," and "the Meanest Man I Ever Knew," to drive home the point that criminals were not admirable figures. He also began allowing magazine and book writers to enter the Bureau and produce highly favorable articles about himself and the enemies. He wrote introductions for books with titles such as Ten Thousand Public Enemies and Our FBI: An Inside Story...
That struck a tender nerve in Lindsay's tense New York. Evoking the specter of the "biggest, sloppiest, meanest strike in the city's history," Victor Gotbaum, executive director of Council 37 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, called out some 7,300 workers in an effort to persuade the legislature to change its mind. More than 600 Teamsters joined the walkout...