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...than most of his predecessors. Some of his highest, and lowest, moments came in the 1952 presidential race, which he entered with feigned reluctance. The candidate did not have the nerve to repudiate Wisconsin's red-baiting Joseph McCarthy-even after he smeared General Marshall, Ike's patron-but otherwise took firm command of the campaign. He did, for instance, shrewdly overrule professional advice that he ignore the South and avoid making peace with his Republican rival, isolationist Senator Robert Taft of Ohio. He rejected right-wing Republican demands for a drastic escalation of the Korean conflict...
...already shown. For the September finale, the action will heat up even more, both on the 24.3-mile-long triangular course and along Newport's palazzo-lined shore, where the late-night partying has included the likes of Britain's Prince Andrew and the Aga Khan, patron of the Italian effort...
...walls, and a large red-lettered slogan in Amharic, Ethiopia's official language, reads FORWARD WITH THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE WORKING CLASS PARTY. Not far away, in a flag-bedecked square, a 16-ft.-high red billboard carries the unsmiling trinity of Marx, Engels and Lenin, the new patron saints of the revolution that extinguished a 2,000-year-old monarchy...
...principles. But such third-party suits have recently proliferated in the U.S., partly because some new laws have encouraged them. For example, so-called dramshop statutes, which have become widespread in the past two decades, hold bar owners responsible in many cases for the actions of an intoxicated patron after he has left the premises. At the same time, liberalizing court decisions have made more and more institutions open to lawsuits for the conduct of others. Among the favorite targets: apartment-and office-building landlords, hotels, hospitals, schools, manufacturers and municipal transit systems...
...institution has its own guardian angel. Hence the school ritual: when a student drives out through the sandstone gates, he taps the roof of his car to summon the angel. When he returns safely to campus, he taps the car roof again to release his protector. Lately that celestial patron has been off campus on a new mission, fund raising. When Tennessee Williams died last month, the University of the South found itself the principal beneficiary of his estate, reported to be $10 million, despite the fact that the playwright had never attended the college...