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"We've seen so many cliffhangers that I don't get acrophobia when I look over a cliff," quipped New York Governor Hugh Carey last week. Once again he was peering into the abyss of default. The helping hand he had expected from Gerald Ford had not been...
"What do you think of our strike?" quipped Socialist Leader Mário Scares last week. He was referring to one of the most bizarre events in Portugal since the 1974 revolution: the government itself was staging a walkout. Its strike was to protest the massive rallies that have stymied...
Sexless Nag. McMurphy is an ambiguous character whose motives are never quite clear. Like revolutionaries who operate on a larger political stage, McMurphy may be acting out of idealism or he may have found a socially acceptable cover for profound psychopathy−or both. Kesey also understood that a belief...
The humiliating demonstration of leftist power threatened to bring down the sixth revolutionary government in 18 months. With the motto "Discipline! Discipline!", Premier Pinheiro de Azevedo, a moderate, has been trying since he assumed office two months ago to restore government authority and military subordination to it, which had gradually...
Died. William Bennett Kouwenhoven, 89, innovative electrical and bio-medical engineer who developed lifesaving heart resuscitation techniques; in Baltimore. Kouwenhoven, who served more than 60 years on the Johns Hopkins faculty, discovered in the 1930s that a brief jolt of electricity applied to a fibrillating heart muscle could restore the...