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...hasn't been such a good evening," said Prime Minister Golda Meir ruefully, as she arrived for a meeting with Israel's President Ephraim Katzir - beating the legal deadline for forming a new government by only 45 minutes. Mrs. Meir's remark was something of an understatement. Despite almost two months of intense negotiations, she had been unable to form a broad-based coalition and was forced to announce the first minority government in Israel's history. Her Labor Party, which won 51 seats in the election last December, along with two allied splinter groups will...
Writing personal histories, but not evaluating specific games or chess theory, Schonberg displays arresting personalities and tells dozens of famous stories. There is the remark with which Tarrasch began his 1908 match with then world champion Emanuel Lasker: "To you, Dr. Lasker, I have only three words, check and mate." He lost. Or Paul Morphy, the American who was acknowledged as the world's best player during a career of only a year and a half in the 1850s, and who died insane, a hater of the game. And the Cuban Jose Raul Capablanca, arguably the greatest player...
...took the name with him when he was forced out of the concern in 1922- before it merged with Metro and Mayer to form perhaps the most famous movie name of all. "A self-made man may prefer a self-made name" was Judge Learned Hand's remark, after Goldwyn's former associates sought to restrain him legally from using it on his independent releases...
...ease) said that newspapermen were too tough to be influenced by the government. The prosecutor, a Young Republican type, said, "I'm not aware of any law forbidding conversations between agents of the federal government and newspaper editors!" He glanced at the spectators to see how his remark had come...
...King's remark, "when people come into conflict over their homosexuality, then it's a treatable illness," only makes sense in light of Spitzer's statement (which followed in the article) to the effect that the new category--"sexual orientation disturbance"--is restricted to those who are troubled about their sexual orientation. Moreover, it might be pointed out that when people come into conflict over their heterosexuality, or over any aspect of their psychological make-up, it is a treatable illness. If more homosexuals are conflicted about their sex lives, it is certainly a result of the oppressive society...