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...Royals all year long was Shortstop Patek's missing part of a West Coast road trip. He claimed he was hurt, but a few players suggested he was a hypochondriac. Big deal. With such a mild-mannered crew to boss, Manager Herzog gives his players free rein and has found it necessary to call only one meeting all year long, which must be a league record...
...full of "moments," if not full roles, that he relishes. Director John Ford, for whom he worked seven times, was a major influence: "If there is a style that emerged from that group of actors who worked repeatedly with Ford, it was a certain spareness. You learned to rein in your emotions. If they're there, they are going to color your voice, show in your face, the way you move...
...that the public widely regards him as a weak leader. He acted unusually quickly to obtain the resignation of Adviser Peter Bourne when he became an embarrassment to the White House. He dramatically asserted presidential control over the scandal-tinged General Services Administration. And he has imposed a tighter rein on Cabinet officials...
...this efficiency is not less litigation or less crime, but a tight rein on dilatory lawyers through strict scheduling and the establishment of procedures to cut out unessential steps. Sometimes hearing the appeal itself is unnecessary. Under the court's civil appeals management plan, opposing lawyers are routinely brought together to explore the possibility of settling the case before the circuit court judges will even hear it. As a result, the number of cases settled or withdrawn before hearing last year in the Second was one-third higher than in the other circuits. If the case goes forward, further...
Dick Clark, the Iowa Democrat who had introduced the measure in 1976. They asked his advice on a plan by which the U.S. could channel aid to one of the anti-Neto guerrilla factions in Angola?presumably to pressure the Luanda government to put a tighter rein on both its Cuban and Katangese guests. After some thought, Clark concluded that the scheme would violate the law and that he would oppose...