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...editor of the American Banker, he expressed in pungent terms his longstanding opinion of the Shah of Iran * who is pushing for higher and higher oil prices and whose nation was pointedly not among the countries that the Secretary would be visiting. Said Simon: "The Shah is a nut." He later explained that he meant the description only in the sense that someone might be a "nut about tennis or golf...
...earth aboard their Salyut 3 space station, ground control sternly refused to let them listen to the semifinal match between Poland and Brazil in the World Cup championship. The excitement, the controllers feared, might stir up the cosmonauts' pulse beats and blood pressure. But after a while, Soccer Nut Popovich could bear the suspense no longer. "How did they play? What's the score?" he demanded. Told that the Soviet Union's East bloc allies had eked out a 1-0 victory, Popovich exulted: "Bravo! Good guys, those Poles...
...author is a sports nut now edging toward 50. He grew up in fashionable Merion, Pa., member of a distinguished, divided and furiously competitive clan. His mother, Historian Catherine Drinker Bowen (Yankee from Olympus), apparently never lost at any sport. Bowen dreamed of becoming a triple-threat back at Princeton but became a pedestrian first baseman at Amherst, then an editor in New York. Years passed. Sports stars grew younger. Bowen grew older. Came the day when he could no longer take comfort even from the presence on the sporting scene of elderly prizefighters like Archie Moore, or the ageless...
...academic, as the book showed by combining turgid prose with a tendency to uncharitable generalization. But the burgeoning women's liberation movement needed a source book, and the press needed a symbol. In a matter of weeks, Kate Millett saw herself metamorphosed from "unknown sculptor to media nut...
...tranquilizers to relieve his tension. He refused. "If I did that," he asks, "then why not drink? I was tired of being told that 1) I'm alcoholic, and 2) I need to take tranquilizers to survive. If I had taken drugs, I would have been in the nut house again in a matter of months...