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...contacts and grass-roots identification helped him put together a smooth political machine. To get elected, it was necessary to make some gestures toward the past: he opposed busing, visited a private segregated academy and said he would welcome meetings with George Wallace. He also appealed to the ever-potent populist instincts of the state by promising to oppose Establishment power brokers and big money interests. He beat former Governor Carl Sanders in the Democratic runoff and went on to a 200,000-vote victory over the Republican candidate, Atlanta Television Newsman Hal Suit...
...leaders gathered behind then-Mayor Ivan Allen Jr. to shape a different image for the capital: "The city too busy to hate." Dr. Vivian Henderson, president of Clark College, feels not too much should be made of Atlanta's motives: "Self-enlightenment is not the takeoff point. The most potent factor has been the national policies that forced the South to change its ways of doing business?the court orders, the executive orders and the new legislation in civil rights. If it had not been for these factors, the steps the busi ness community would have taken would have been...
...made of red wine and fruit juices; French and Italian sweet vermouths are simply flavored wines; Greeks add resin to wine to produce retsina. Indeed, products like Thunderbird (a citrus-flavored wine that is 18% alcohol) have been on U.S. shelves for more than a decade. These cheap, more potent brands should continue to sell, mostly to the Skid Row set, despite the pop-wine invasion. What would a serious wino want, after all, with a low-alcohol tipple called Annie Greensprings...
...part by the work of Bernard Brodie, James Gavin, and Edward Teller, and the sections on diplomatic flexibility borrowed heavily from Metternich and the conferees at Vienna. The book's real departure was its fusing of diplomatic concerns with the theory of nuclear war: the result was a potent, hard-line combina-tion of cajolery, threat, and physical force...
...quick goals by Hagerty and Frisbie indicated that Harvard was perhaps ready to unleash its potent at tack and run up a big lead. Then the Elis, particularly Fagan, began to take McHenry's advice, and Yale came storming back to eventually tie the score...