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...coup continued to rage, tending to obscure the fact that the book itself is all too often vague, unsubstantiated and poorly written. Newspapers and magazines that had bought serial rights to the book from the New York Times Syndication Sales Corp. were trying to renegotiate-or back out of-their agreements. They argued that 1) the Post's story on Haldeman's book had turned their expensive excerpts into damaged goods, 2) the Times had damaged them further by rushing into print after the Post's scoop, and 3) the New York Times Co. had failed...
Shero and his N.H.L. colleagues say they are not planning any special changes to combat the Russian style of play. They will rely instead on the strengths of home-grown hockey: better body checking and a generous supply of personal flair and determination. The Russians, despite-or because of-their rigid system, apparently envy those qualities. "We are very disappointed that Bobby Orr won't be playing," says one Soviet hockey official, speaking of the Boston Bruins' peerless but injured defenseman. "He is perhaps the greatest player of all time...
Despite-and partly because of-their theatrics, the alienated children of affluence have also confronted U.S. corporations with an immense challenge. Gulf Oil President B.R. Dorsey said that company officials were shaken by the persistent opposition of spokesmen for church groups. "Over the next ten years," Dorsey says, "the public will demand justification for just about everything American industry is doing. If we have a point to make, and I am sure we do, then we had better start finding ways to make...
...than-adequate soldiers. A few of history's notables-Ivan the Terrible, a manic depressive; Julius Caesar, an epileptic; Alexander the Great, sometimes called the "divine lunatic"; and Peter the Great, who killed his own men in fits of temper-were good soldiers in spite of-or perhaps because of-their mental ills. The Army Medical Corps' Major William Needles has decided that nervous handicaps may act as psychological crutches...
...Forty-Gallon Baptis" gets a token he is going to die at 10 o'clock that night. He makes the event an occasion to prove to his benighted Free-Will neighbors the error of-their ways...
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