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...gathering, declared Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, was "a great success" that "demonstrated total support of all Jewish people for the State of Israel." But the fact that he found it necessary to convene such an international pep rally before his first meeting next week with President Bush underscored Shamir's well-founded worries about his standing abroad, notably in the U.S. Shamir's convocation could not disguise the growing impatience of many Jews outside Israel. They bridle at his stubborn resistance to any accommodation with the rebellious Palestinians living in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza. Nor could...
...Perry's high school basketball team to the 1956 state championship. "We were behind by 5 points at the half," recalls Ed Beckham, a Perry oil distributor. "Our coach was one of the winningest in the nation, but it was Sam who gave us the half-time pep talk...
...classmate Kathy Hyde Parker, "but never with the bad kids." Her self-styled feminism was awakened early: she wanted to play basketball in high school but balked at the half-court games girls then had to play. At Purdue she ran for freshman-class treasurer and formed the Pep Girls, a pom-pom cheerleader squad that she directed with no nonsense. "At our meetings we didn't horse around," says former Pep Girl Barbara Little...
...Browns were derisively absorbed into the N.F.L. "They don't even have a football," remarked first commissioner Elmer Layden. Before Cleveland's big-league debut against the champion Philadelphia Eagles, Brown gathered his rinky-dinks all around -- players with names like Groza, Motley and Graham -- and delivered a pep talk of two sentences. Referring to the star of both the Eagles and the league, he said dryly, "Just think. Tonight you're going to get to touch Steve Van Buren...
...best game of the year for us." Tri-Captain Julia Trotman said. "We [the captains] gave the team a pep talk before the game and made it clear that our goal for the season is to win the Ivy League and that everyone has to work really hard...