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...Nixon's opponents in the primary will be an extreme rightist (though not a Birch member) named Joseph C. Shell, now a Los Angeles Assemblyman. Shell is far from the stereotype of rabid radical--he is an attractive ex-fullback at U.S.C., still young, still blond--and he is well-financed since he married an oilman's daughter...
...appealed to her. She befriended a fiery Lutheran preacher named Adolph Stoecker and installed him in her salon, where he led the company in hymns to the Fatherland, and excoriated Jews. Mary dreamed of a pure Protestant empire stretching from the U.S. to Europe to the Middle East, and rabid nationalists from all over Germany swarmed to sit at her feet. Under her influence, Wilhelm lost all interest in liberalism. When he succeeded to the throne in 1888, he dismissed Bismarck (who considered Mary a meddlesome woman, snubbed her salon and its anti-Semitism and irritated Wilhelm by the power...
...even the most rabid disciples of web offset, the Lithographic Technical Foundation in Manhattan, envision the day when such presses will replace the letterpress giants that now spew out the nation's metropolitan dailies and the large-audience magazines. Printing presses have a long life-25 years or more-and their proprietors are not anxious to scrap an investment of billions of dollars overnight. And since offset eliminates some of the mechanical departments, any wholesale conversion to offset would be asking for serious labor trouble. Nor has letterpress technology stood still. Among recent developments: a new plastic plate, called...
...anonymous old grad confessed, "No, I am not a rabid Brown football supporter--only hell-bent for a victorious season...
...past, the Crimson seemed to be unduly fazed by the Hanover locale. The long, bumpy bus ride, and the rabid fans breathing hotly down their necks apparently unnerved the Crimson players...