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Within Latin America, paradoxically, public emotions were restrained. Resident or visiting Americans encountered no demonstrations urging " Yanqui go home." Nor were there any anti-American mobs of the sort that pelted Vice President Richard Nixon with eggs in 1958 and forced Governor Nelson Rockefeller to cancel official visits to Chile, Peru and Venezuela in 1969. Although popular sentiment has been running in Argentina's favor, the most violent reactions have been the burning of a few British and U.S. flags in Caracas...
...Byron Nelson, Ben Hogan and Samuel Jackson Snead all will hit 70 this year, a pretty good score when you consider the course. Almost 40 years since he was able to win eleven golf tournaments in a row, Nelson is in Texas being venerable and staying available to Tom Watson whenever the kid needs a lesson. Hogan is in Texas being difficult and hanging up on Gary Player when the South African calls for advice. ("Mr. Player, are you affiliated with a club manufacturer?" "Dunlop." "Call Dunlop." Click.) Snead last week was in Ohio being Snead and so was playing...
...center of both E. T. and Poltergeist is the suburban family, as normal and American as Pop-Tarts. In Poltergeist, Dad (Craig T. Nelson), late 30s, sells tract houses, reads biographies of Ronald Reagan and furrows his brow to watch his hairline recede. Mom (Jobeth Williams), early 30s, keeps house, sings TV beer jingles and tucks in her son under a Star Wars bedspread. If this seems the derisory stuff of sitcoms, it is not. "I never mock suburbia," Spielberg declares. "My life comes from there." He likes these people and communicates that affection. Faced with balky children...
...report also drew criticism from Harvard's associate dean, Charles R. Nelson '60. In a memo to the faculty. Nelson charged that law school is suffering from faculty polarization and urged that the faculty resolve this split before it considers curricular change...
...long series of "outsider" aspirants for executive positions: Wendell Wilkie and Dwight D. Eisenhower both sought the top job with no civilian government experience on their resumes. George Romney (R-Mich.). Milton Schapp (D-Pa.), John Y. Brown (D-Ky.). Lester Maddox (D-Ga.). and most prominently Nelson Rockefeller (R-NY.) all led their states without having led a previous major political office...