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...runaway prices and the increasing national anxiety demanded that the President say something, and make it substantive, and do it quickly. So on Friday afternoon, Jimmy Carter strode into the East Room, having carefully waited until half an hour after the major financial markets had closed in the East, to outline his plans to an invited group of 175 Government officials, congressional leaders and businessmen. His program had many details to be filled in, and his speech had been written hastily in the previous 24 hours. In fact, it was clapped together so hurriedly that one page of the final...
...final word! We are holding firm; our mission is to win or die!" Then the guerrilla, wearing jeans and a hood over her face, flashed a V-for-victory sign at the police and press clustered outside the embassy. With a defiant turn of heel, she strode back into the building, where a band of terrorists calling themselves the M-19 Group has been holding more than 20 ambassadors and other hostages...
...cracked coffee cups, trading jokes and war tales. Said Lieut. John Steele, the Rhodesian base commander: "This has not happened before. I think we have made a promising beginning." The next morning, the raggedly dressed ZANLA men formed up into perfect ranks as Comrade Morgan, a senior guerrilla officer, strode back and forth before them. "ZANLA has won the elections," he barked. "But no one is allowed to boast because he was a freedom fighter. Our revolution is a national revolution, for all races, whites, blacks and Asians. We will cooperate with the security forces and forget all our past...
Darlene Beckford came through with her usual solid performance, when she fought off a threat in the mile by University of Vermont speedster Judi St. Hilaire, and strode through the tape in 4:47.7, stripping more than six seconds off of the old New England record...
...trick was denied when his final shot hit the post. After a slow start which left him second to last in the pack, Dixon staged a miraculous comeback to put him neck and neck with Princeton's Brad Rowe as the two appraoched the finish line. As Dixon strode through the tape, and Rowe dove beneath it, the public address system echoed, "That's Dixon's third...