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Though a few colleagues had been privy to Home's decision, by and large Britain was taken by surprise. Sir Alec's last public word on the subject had been a ringing assurance in March that he was "impatient for the election in which I shall lead you...
"When I leave this here ball club in the fall, I want to leave a young team behind me." That was New York Mets Manager Charles Dillon Stengel talking, at a New York city hall celebration of Casey Stengel Day, one week in advance of his 75th birthday. What he...
"Twilight Zone." To several Senators, that was not enough, and Senator Long, the bill's floor manager, spent most of the week fighting off efforts to broaden coverage. Connecticut Democrat Abraham Ribicoff came up with a $180 million plan to give free, unlimited hospitalization to the aged to protect...
System Strangled. A growing teacher shortage threatens to strangle the entire system. World War II took away many of the young men who would normally have turned to the classrooms. When teachers now in their 50s and 60s begin to retire a decade from now, concludes Philosopher Georg Picht, West...
Unfortunately, he too often let his temper get the best of him. Impatient with arguments, sensitive to the superior ways of his fellow revolutionaries, Villa grew more and more adamant in his own views of how the new government should be shaped, more and more convinced that those who disagreed...