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California casualties swoop down dead with more speed and color and frequency than any other state's: Upton Sinclair, Helen Gahagan Douglas, Goodwin Knight, William Knowland, Pierre Salinger, and of course, Richard Nixon in 1962. It was Jerry Brown's father, cheerful stumbly Pat Brown who beat Nixon for the governorship that year, only to lose to Ronald Reagan the next time around. There is no security in California politics-Pat Brown says that he "rubbed his hands in glee" at the thought of running against the "fading, aging actor." Perhaps that is why the young Brown, with...
...reasonably agile, threw his notes aside and dived into the pool. But as he thrashed furiously, he saw a "large shape" pass overhead and plunge into the water several feet ahead of him. Greene stood up and, says Rosenstein, "lifted the girl out of the water with a powerful swoop. It was the quickest that I've ever seen anyone react...
Last year Park ordered a massive swoop on his critics throughout the country. No fewer than 168 of them were found guilty of various antigovernment activities. Some were sentenced to death, including former President Yun Po Sun, who was accused of giving money to support student protests. Eventually the death sentences were rescinded and most political prisoners released. But eight men convicted by a military tribunal last year of fomenting anti-Park demonstrations were executed, and the current repression continues unabated. Under his name last month, Park issued Presidential Emergency Decree No. 9, which makes any act of "denying, opposing...
...erupted with the frenetic precision of "launch and recovery," sending up 40 planes, like a parking lot emptying at rush hour. Phantoms, Intruders, Corsair II light attack bombers, as well as ugly-goose Hummers with their absurd-looking radar dishes, vaulted off the catapults with a roar and a swoop, 15 seconds apart. Within minutes, other planes were simultaneously coming in for "recovery," the "controlled crashes," as one flyer put it, that pass for carrier landings...
Harvard's varsity heavyweight crew began its 1975 season by ending it. In once convenient swoop at the San Diego Invitational Crew Classic held last Saturday, the Crimson cleaned all major aspirants to their national championship title...