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SPORTS ILLUSTRATED was two years old when Laguerre was assigned to cover the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina for Time Inc. His reporting, and perhaps the reputation he had earned as "the sage of Longchamp and Ascot" for his expertise as a handicapper of thoroughbred race horses, persuaded Henry R. Luce to transfer Laguerre to his new sports magazine as assistant managing editor. Soon after he became managing editor in April 1960, Laguerre recruited young writers and encouraged them to develop their individual styles, sharply increased the number of color pages in each issue, and concentrated heavily on the spectator...
...best a long-range hope. For Mao, however, there are more immediate advantages to be gained from the conflict. He has often used the threat of a foreign enemy to rally support for his own policies while isolating his domestic opposition. Though no Confucianist, he obviously appreciates the sage's saying: "Without the menace of foreign aggression, a country is doomed...
Nixon made it clear, both in his press conference and in his new mes sage, that Congress's primary responsibility in holding down inflation is to live within the budget. Said Nixon: "It is very disconcerting to note that al ready before the Congress are spending proposals which, if enacted, would bust the budget to the tune of at least $6 billion." Yet, in a quick turnabout, he ruled out any substantial saving from are duction in military spending...
Died. William Lindsay White, 73, editor and publisher of the Emporia (Kansas) Gazette and son of William Allen White, the Pulitzer-prizewinning "sage of Emporia"; of cancer; in Emporia. A World War II correspondent for 40 daily newspapers, White in 1942 wrote They Were Expendable, a novel about PT-boat combat in the Pacific that was made into a John Wayne movie. Returning to Emporia in 1944 after his father's death, he maintained the Gazette's reputation for lively editorials...
Ervin, of course, is the wise old sage of the hearings. Like a visiting uncle, he dispenses his pearls of wisdom with droll humor and biblical quotations. But it is when he gets angry that Ervin is at his best, Ervin, like none of the others, can bear down on a witness, cutting directly to the heart of the testimony and making clear the full implications of that testimony. His dogged emphasis on the Constitution and the ways in which it has been abused by a particular witness puts the matter in its proper, sweeping perspective...