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...tobacco roads. He can communicate with the disinherited as few others of his race or rank are able to do. He can maul a William Manchester, then have the author serve as honorary chairman of a Kennedy for President club. He can be morose or merry, expansive or petty, merciless or magnanimous?all to an extreme degree. Says Lawrence O'Brien: "The pendulum just swings wider for him than it does for most people." For every Machiavellian maneuver there is a graceful gesture; for every half-truth or hyperbole there is a disarming pinch of self-depreciation: "You see what...
Mailer quotes the Time story in its entirety at the beginning of his article, then writes, "Now we may leave Time in order to find out what happened." Mailer really tells us, and he is far more merciless on himself than Time...
...days' lull, the Israelis struck back. Answering an artillery barrage against two border kibbutzim, Israeli guns opened up along a 60-mile front extending from Jericho to the Sea of Galilee. Massed in advance for the attack, howitzers, heavy mortars and tanks pounded Jordanian positions with merciless accuracy. The Arabs brought up reinforcements and pounded back, turning great patches of Israeli farm land into rolling seas of flame. Then the Israelis called out their air force. For nearly seven hours, squadrons of jet fighter-bombers dumped rockets, phosphorus bombs and napalm on the East Bank. They destroyed a guerrilla...
Harvard, a late-rally team all year long, put merciless pressure on Healey at the start of the final period, but the sophomore goaltender locked the Crimson out. Then, when Erickson stretched the Larrie lead to 5-1 by firing a carom over Diercks' shoulder at 7:13, the game was as good as over...
Terrell beat Sterne 3-0 on Monday. After dropping the first game 15-3 Sterne battled back, but could not survive Terrell's merciless attack and lost the second and third games 15-13 and 16-14. Gonzales edged Sterne 3-1 on Wednesday...