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...easy to use the South as a shield against Harvard, an excuse for failures. It's easy, at first, to go back home and feel comfortable and successful there, and to dismiss as ignorant people from the North who will tell you how backward and racist the South...
...when the convicts tried to carry out their escape plan-a futile bid for freedom that ended tragically for two of the women hostages and two of the convicts. Moving out of the library and toward the waiting vehicle, the convicts forced eight of the hostages to form a shield around them. They taped law books to portable blackboards as a secondary line of protection. With them inside that barrier were four other hostages, including the two women...
...when the afternoon strikes took place. In a first aid center near the beach, Greek volunteers flattened themselves on the floor. Young women bravely, if thinly, sang a song of the Greek underground that has as its theme the old Spartan saying about coming home carrying one's shield or on it. When the planes pulled up and headed back to Turkey, the waterfront was a shambles. Five hotels and many shops along Kennedy Avenue, the main hotel street, were smashed. In what had been the bar of the Salaminia Tower Hotel, the body of a beach boy hung...
...sole Republican to join committee Democrats in rejecting President Nixon's proffer of transcripts instead of tapes as final evidence. A moderate Republican with a youthful following, he has sponsored social legislation such as the nursing-home patients' bill and the newsmen's shield...
...Ross Perot, 44. "Making money per se never really interested me," insists the clean-cut mule trader's son from Texarkana, Texas, who quit a salesman's job at IBM in 1962, worked briefly as a data processing manager for Blue Cross/Blue Shield, then set up the Dallas computer software firm of Electronic Data Systems with $1,000. By 1970 his assets had soared to as much as $1.5 billion. He promptly took an oceanic bath as the computer market went stale (in a single day the value of his stocks dropped $376 million), next scuttled tens...