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...vanity and impatience that can blister into arrogance. In his clockwork Cabinet meetings, he thinks nothing of cutting off the first digression with a knifing "That's not pertinent!" He once complained about Ludwig Erhard, who succeeded Adenauer as Chancellor, that "talking with him is like trying to nail Jell-O to the wall...
...lawmen never came close to finding the beehive, despite a statewide all-points bulletin, although they nearly did nail Senator Gene Jones, who had chosen to leave the hideout because he had just sworn off cigarettes and was getting edgy in the smoke-filled room. To avoid the police, Jones was house-hopping around Houston. When a Ranger and another lawman arrived at the place where he was staying, the clean-shaven Jones jumped over a back fence; the police thereupon arrested his mustachioed brother Clayton and, despite his avowal that he was the wrong man, helicoptered him back...
Senior captain Gordie Gardiner expects that the poor start will provide the Bruins with an extra incentive to nail the Crimson. "They are in a make it or break it situation. They have the potential and are going to be coming at us early, so we have to shut them down early," Gardiner says...
When the news reached Riyadh that President Carter would soon arrive in the Middle East to nail down a peace treaty, there were no outbursts of relief or thanksgiving. In fact, there was much more excitement over the Arab Foreign Ministers' meeting in Kuwait, which had just arranged a second cease-fire in the border war between Marxist, Moscow-leaning South Yemen and moderate, pro-Saudi North Yemen. For the Saudis, the importance of the cease-fire was that it had been negotiated and resolved by the Arabs. The President's visit to Cairo and Jerusalem was only...
...Malcolm F.S. Cooper gave the Crimson its third gold medal, third pool record, and third national qualifier in three events by blasting off the blocks and motoring to a 20.67 clocking in the 50 freestyle. Powerful sophomore Julian Mack complemented Cooper's effort by overcoming a weak start to nail down the bronze medal...