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After that rather prophetic beginning, TIME over the years kept close watch as the towering figure of De Gaulle strode through history. This week, as he makes his eighth appearance as the cover subject, those previous cover stories stand as perceptive punctuation marks in a most remarkable career...
...perfectionist. What, exactly, was wrong on those two missed putts? He got his answer studying a TV rerun. "I had my eyes outside the ball," he said. It took a few minutes of intense practice to adjust his stance-a matter of about one-half inch. Beaming broadly, he strode onto the first tee for next day's play-off and slammed his opening drive...
...effect was breathtaking. Out strode the model, clothed in nothing but wafer-thin plastic disks, each glinting with dazzling sun colors (hot orange, pink) and hung together with fine wires...
...seventh in the league in assists; every other player among the top ten was a guard. "Everybody knows I can score 100 points a game if need be," Wilt explained in Baltimore last week. "But the purpose of this game is to win, not set records." So saying, he strode out onto the court, picked off 26 rebounds, scored 24 points and set up three other Philadelphia baskets with assists, as the 76ers beat the Baltimore Bullets 108-104 in their last game of the season. The victory was Philadelphia's eleventh straight, and it earned the 76ers...
...order a general retreat, but he did not have to: Drake retreated first. In a panic he abandoned a key position-and then hid in a cellar, where he fell asleep on a storage bin. After he woke up, Drake took his first and last decisive action. He strode to the riverbank, jumped into a rowboat, and was last seen shinnying shamelessly aboard a merchantman moored near the fort...