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...looked like a rather ordinary figure-short, bespectacled, with graying hair and mustache-and he acted as though this were just another day, just another lecture. Five minutes late, he strode into Room 569 of New York University's Waverly Building and confronted the two dozen students of "The Philosophy of History and Culture." First, "to clean up some housekeeping," there would be an exam after the holidays, and "I don't want to hear just what you know but why you know it. And I always tell my students that if they write just one brilliant sentence...
Thus Perón limped rather than strode back into Argentine history. Indeed, the return had none of the historical impact he so badly wanted and needed. There was no echo of Napoleon's dramatic escape from exile on Elba. Moreover, if Perón had planned to present himself as the instant solution to the troubles of Argentina and then ride off into the sunset like a gaucho De Gaulle with his charisma and place in history as a statesman intact, the scene was not quite right. Perón had, in fact, been forced to return...
...longtime (1957-62, 1967-69) U.S. Ambassador to Moscow. After making preliminary inquiries at the Soviet embassy in Washington, he put the question directly to Premier Aleksei Kosygin during a high-level trade meeting in Moscow last December. In the middle of their conversation, then-Commerce Secretary Maurice Stans strode up and cracked to Kosygin: "What's Kendall trying to do, sell you a Pepsi?" That was precisely what Kendall was doing, and with swift success: that very evening Kosygin approved the outlines of last week's deal. It was not the first time that Kendall had scored...
Greenwood strode purposefully across some synthetic carpeting and then rolled thousands of tiny plastic beads across it. Most of the beads could be easily blown off the rug. But some stuck in place, attracted by the local static charges that Greenwood had created by his walk. In fact, they formed clusters that looked like footprints wherever his heels and soles had come in contact with the carpet. Greenwood found that he could use the beads to detect his shoeprints up to a day after he had walked across...
...rest of the night, the partism crowd had to survive on the exhilitration of the congresswoman's anticipated visit. When Hicks finally strode hesitatingly on stage at 11:20 p.m., the crowded banquet room had worked itself to a fevered pitch. In the 600 excited workers, it made no difference that Hicks zoomed to gave a short two-minute spiel, and just as quickly zoomed out. The people watching the local television monitors were closer to the candidate than those listening to her speech...