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...practiced by President Park Chung Hee, "modern democracy" has become an Orwellian synonym for despotic one-man rule. Since January alone, Park has proclaimed four restrictive "emergency decrees," one of which bans any attempt to amend or criticize his custom-tailored constitution, which gives him virtually unlimited powers...
...balls more than 500 feet. In streak hitting, Jackson is unrivaled today. He has clubbed eight home runs in six days, accounted for ten runs batted in in one game and hit .630 over a seven-game stretch. As of last week, Jackson had a league-leading 13 home runs, 37 RBls and was batting .397-second in the A.L. In one win over Minnesota last week, Jackson was a one-man wild bunch, knocking in five of the A's seven runs with a homer, double and single...
...affairs and his vigor in finding new facts. He talks easily on such matters as the concentration of private wealth in the hands of relatively few Oklahomans and the amount of state tax paid by oil companies in 1973. While doing legwork in the state capital, Troy is a one-man information clearinghouse. He gets tips from other newsmen whose papers are cool to exposes. Legislators and their aides regularly quiz him on state issues...
...Russian support of Assad had a double edge. One was an ostentatious display of diplomatic and material support of Syria until peace talks take place in Geneva-with Moscow as an equal partner to discussions rather than un der Henry Kissinger's one-man diplomacy. The other was that the Soviets, by playing up to Syria, were trying to balance their declining influence with Egypt as their chief Arab ally...
Wycherley made even his minor characters convincing and more than mere dramatic foils, but Turner's producation rarely allows them anything but sheer entertainment value. At this, however, they are superb, and David Natzler as Novel, "a pert railing fop and admirer of novelties" carries on his own one-man show...