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...Manhattan town house and addressed the topic of the moment. General Alexander Haig had just been rumored to be the top candidate for Secretary of State. Beneath the famous brows, Nixon's dark eyes shone. "I know Al Haig," he said. "He is one of the most ruthless, toughest, ambitious s.o.b.s I know. He'd make a great Secretary of State...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency by Hugh Sidey: The Genie That Got Away | 7/5/1982 | See Source »

...recent string of defeats--lengthened by three ruthless Red Sox drubbings this week--has, according to Detroit and Tiger observers, made the Motor City an even sadder place to be these days...

Author: By Thomas H. Howlett, | Title: Baseball as Antidote | 6/25/1982 | See Source »

...book that describes his closest aides. Some who had read the draft had told him that it was much too soft on them. Engrossed in the work, he pushed himself well past his usual 10:30 bedtime. Day after day, he applied to the book the same drive and ruthless self-discipline he had brought to the presidency. Back home in Plains, he worked as if his very survival as a man depended on it. -By Robert Ajemian

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jimmy Carter: This Is My Place | 5/24/1982 | See Source »

Murray ignored the remark. "I'll miss WKRP in Cincinnati," he volunteered, his bald head waxing nostalgic. "They were like us too-a tiny, not very successful radio station whose employees were never quite resourceful or ruthless enough to be No. 1. I always thought of them as human Muppets. Dynel Andy and soft, squeezable Mr. Carlson tried to keep their charges in order. But Venus Flytrap and Johnny Fever, the disc jockeys, were too weird, and Les Nessman too straight, and Bailey too nice-a little like you, Mary-and Herb Tarlek too wonderfully oafish to realize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: R.I.P. the Honest Laugh | 5/24/1982 | See Source »

...also interested to read of my own "ruthlessness"--apparently the violator is less ruthless than the one who reports him. May I pointout simply that Harvard's loss was not Cornell's gain--Columbia won the Ivy title and they deserved...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Wrestlers And the Ivies | 5/19/1982 | See Source »

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