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...doesn't simply write about Lyndon Johnson. You get the Johnson treatment from beyond the grave -- arm around you, nose to nose. I should admit that he also reminds me of my father, quite an overbearing and narcissistic character. And in some ways, he reminds me of myself. Another workaholic...
...have come true. Black unemployment is estimated at 40% to 45%, vs. a 10% jobless rate for whites. Another prediction made by opponents of sanctions, however, has proved quite wrong. It had been widely forecast that the embargo would provoke a laager (circling the wagons) mentality among whites, a nose-thumbing determination to defy world opinion. That happened in Rhodesia in the late 1960s, but exactly the opposite seems to have occurred in South Africa: the | shock of finding themselves moral outcasts stung many of the nation's whites so deeply that they went along with a faster and more...
...tacky look and hyperbolic claims of these ads have made many station executives uncomfortable with them. But not uncomfortable enough to refuse them. Infomercial telecasts have increased from 2,500 a month in 1985 to more than 21,000 today. "Most people are holding their nose but taking the money," says an executive at New York's WNBC-TV. "It's a lure and a curse...
...Fulcrum-D jet fighters dazzled spectators at a French air base last month with demonstrations of the Soviet-invented "cobra" maneuver. In a chilling imitation of a striking snake, the aircraft rockets upward from a standing start, slows to a near standstill as the pilot pulls its nose just past the 90 degrees point, flies backward in that position and then snaps forward again and resumes normal flight. U.S. military officers dismiss the maneuver as impractical for combat, but the sleek blue-and-white fighters are expected to star at this month's Salon Aeronautique Espace in Paris...
Freshman Adrian Ezra, who later went on to claim the national single's title, demonstrated the fortitude and resolve of the Crimson that day. Plagued by nose and shoulder injuries, Ezra came back from a two-game deficit to provide a big fifth game...