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Leaving the TV studio, Madison braced himself for the gauntlet of demonstrators and special pleaders. He strode quickly past the suffragists with their banner: THE RITES OF MAN ARE WRONGS FOR WOMEN. He shook off two business lobbyists, easily identifiable by their soft Venetian boots, who wanted the Constitution specifically to exempt the game of rounders from the interstate commerce clause. Shy, soft-spoken and constantly embarrassed by his own meager war record, Madison found a delegation of Revolutionary War veterans harder to ignore. Confronted with half a dozen strapping backwoodsmen with rum on their breath and Valley Forge...
...Neil Kinnock burst exuberantly into Darlington's Dolphin Center gymnasium, 1,000 supporters jumped up with a whoop. His right fist pumping air like a boxer who has just knocked out the champ, the Labor Party leader strode to the podium to accuse the Conservative government of creating a "divided kingdom," with islands of affluence surrounded by poverty. Campaigning in Edinburgh, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher responded that economic prosperity would "vanish like a dream" if Labor were elected. "Personal abuse," she added disdainfully, "signals panic...
...Chev!" The Soviet leader, who has downplayed the personality cults favored by his predecessors in the Kremlin, was plainly appalled. Quickly traversing a vast expanse of red carpet to reach a microphone erected in expectation of a speech, Gorbachev said curtly, "Greetings, comrades." Then he strode away...
...campaign last week, the portraits that political leaders painted of their country were starkly different -- and the conflicting images at once turned into political battle flags. To the strains of Brahms' Fourth Symphony in London's Queen Elizabeth Conference Center, Neil Kinnock, the leader of the opposition Labor Party, strode onto the podium to describe a joyless, divided Britain, an "economically and socially disabled" country afflicted with Dickensian misery. Two hours later, at Conservative Party headquarters near Westminster Abbey, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, at the helm for the past eight years, evoked a very different nation, one with "revived spirit...
...shown up, one of them carrying a football, which he tossed to Father Theodore Martin Hesburgh, with a request that the priest assume the hike stance. "I'm not the coach," snapped the new leader of America's foremost collegiate football power, "I'm the president!" And he strode from the room. "That happened only once," recalls the 69-year-old Hesburgh, who is now preparing for his retirement; it will come next week, after a reign that is the longest and, by some accounts, the most distinguished of any major U.S. university head. The school he took over...