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Today there is no removing Aaron, the private person, from the public eye. Ironically, the acclaim that was denied him through much of his career now threatens to overwhelm him. In defense, he has developed stock answers for the stock questions that he hears every day. What do you have to do to break Ruth's mark? "Hit more home runs." How do you feel about Ruth? "I'm not trying to make anyone forget Babe Ruth. I just want them to remember Henry Aaron." What is your reaction to the hate mail? "The more they push...
Both Dunlop and Rosovsky contrast nicely with the presidents under whom they served. Pusey needed a strong man in the Faculty, and found in John Dunlop the aggressive labor-relations background needed to overwhelm torn Faculty alliances. In the Bok Administration's early days, Dunlop kept the Faculty leashed while Bok established his footing...
...complete with guttural Asiatic incantations, to support his twelve best stories. The basic notion was that countless eons ago, Earth had been taken over by an extraterrestrial race which, in the practice of black magic, had lost its hegemony, but lay dormant and dreaming, awaiting a second chance to overwhelm the planet...
...Gaddafi and essential to his dreams of leadership. The linking is a calculated risk for him. Unless his notoriously dour and apathetic people can be mobilized and motivated, contends a Moslem writer who is a longtime Gaddafi watcher, "Egyptian bureaucrats will move in like a plague of locusts and overwhelm Libya. That is why he launched the People's Revolution. It is essentially a defensive operation aimed at helping Libyans hold their own with Egyptians after the union...
Thieu's new confidence is not baseless. If the Paris agreement has not ended the fighting, it has also not led to the political upheavals that many observers in both Washington and Saigon feared might soon overwhelm Thieu. Saigon's 1,100,000-man military machine, the basis of Thieu's strength, has not collapsed; indeed, ARVN desertions have declined since the ceasefire. Thieu is also cheered by the unexpected ease with which his forces have retaken almost all of the 400 villages that were seized by the Communists in the confusion following the Jan. 23 initialing...