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...states like California and Illinois held strongly for Carter, and when Pennsylvania put Carter over the top, Strauss was on his feet. "Let's go, Hamilton, start calling those names!" he said in a shout. Jordan answered that he was going to go congratulate the Carter workers. "Not them, goddam it!" Strauss barked at him. "I mean the guys we just beat. We own the others...
...wonder, then, that the U.S. has suffered some acute headaches this past year watching its allies-its official friends-in various tests and then deciding which of them is worthy of the name. If Britain was true blue in joining the American shout at the Ayatullah, was Australia less of a friend in refusing to support the Olympic boycott? What of France, of France especially, America's oldest international friend, its Revolutionary War buddy? How could it turn its back on the U.S.? The fact is that France, irritating as its behavior may be, as strictly disloyal...
...shout from the left...
...Thinking hard, trying to keep the attention of the man who controls the cameras for ABC, Ali moves towards Holmes for a direct confrontation. The ring apron is only 18 inches wide; Ali is awkward in his attempts to draw nearer to his ex-sparring partner. He continues to shout, but the words are slurred. Brain damage, a British physician has speculated. Ali almost slips and has to grab the top tope of the ring. He frowns. He knows ten million television watchers have seen him lose his balance. Ten million anonymous television viewers...
...other sport demands such politeness of its practitioners, except perhaps golf. And who could get excited enough to shout obscenities on a golf course? Stock car racers don't have to use turn signals, and they're allowed to pass on the left as well as the right. Hockey players are permitted to check opponents without first issuing a caution. In short, the other games men play have rules, but they do not have an ethic of etiquette...