Word: risked
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Humphrey demonstrates the risk of writing the political obituary of any politician who still walks the earth. After his loss to Richard Nixon in the presidential election of 1968, and then his defeat by George McGovern in the primaries of 1972, he seemed extinct. But within the past few weeks, the 64-year-old Minnesotan has risen from the political dead, looking more buoyant than ever. "There's no doubt about it," says Presidential Candidate Morris Udall, "Hubert has the bug again." Adds a top staffer at the Democratic National Committee: "The Humphrey talk is everywhere now. You hear...
...situation worsens, Portugal seems unable to control events. Lisbon sent 2,000 reinforcements last month to its 24,000-man force in Angola, but has little desire to risk more lives in an unpopular war. Meanwhile, Portugal is regularly attacked by all sides...
...Risk Trippers. In Michigan, last year nearly 20 million vacationers visited the 78 state parks, and three enormous national forests were saturated with summer visitors. But solitude could be found on any of several state-owned islands on Lake Superior and Lake Michigan. Only the hardiest souls venture on the island expeditions organized by Paul Risk, a prominent outdoorsman whose wilderness-survival courses at Michigan State University draw capacity enrollment. Risk trippers are allowed to take only a blanket, sleeping gear, two candy and two meat bars. One survivor recalls that last year an eleven-member expedition to Garden Island...
...that of Watergate's still unidentified "Deep Throat") has been smuggling copies of confidential A.M.A. documents to federal officials and to newsmen around the country. This has been embarrassing the organization-already under study by the Postal Service and the Internal Revenue Service-and exposing it to the risk of congressional investigations. Says one A.M.A. official: "It is like death by a thousand cuts...
...strikes." For a man his size he even has speed. He has been clocked at 4.3 seconds from home plate to first base. "I could steal a base every series if I got the green light," he says. He rarely gets it because Manager Danny Ozark prefers not to risk injury to the man who rings up so many of his team's runs. With Cash and Bowa preceding him to the plate, Luzinski has ample opportunity to drive in runs. "We have cruisers and PT boats," says Catcher Bob Boone of the Phillies' attack. "But Greg...