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Through the years in which Cactus Jack's legend grew, he enjoyed the tales as much as the public. They called him as taciturn as Coolidge, and he boasted that he had gone eight years in Congress without making a speech. They called him a miser and-though a multimillionaire-he employed his wife as full-time secretary and cook. He doted on hunting, fishing, poker and pungent Mexican cigars, loved his sour-mash bourbon and glorified convivial nipping as "striking a blow for liberty." Many a blow was struck with congressional leaders of both parties and with...
Danius Turek plays a second masterful creation, Archibald Grosvenor, taciturn lyric poet, indomitable narcissist: in short dear chorines, the single apple of your collective eye. Men do not care for him. Turek is limited by an approximately normal skeletal structure, forcing him to exploit the variety of stuffed poses of which he is capable. He charts the attitude of pomposity with a mathematical vigor, with glorious shamelessness impossible since Freud's tinkerings...
...taciturn, he is a master at getting a horse cleanly out of the gate, never rushes his mount too soon; if a horse has anything left for the stretch, Velasquez will get it out of him-with a silky touch, not a whip. "Suppose I come to the stretch head to head with another horse," he says, "and I whip him-and he loses balance. The race is lost...
Just how wrong he could be, the pugnacious, taciturn boss of the Teamsters Union learned last week when the iron gates of the federal penitentiary at Lewisburg, Pa., swung shut on him. Jimmy Hoffa was in on an eight-year sentence, and could be rapped with an additional five-year term if the courts reject his appeal from a conviction for fraud and conspiracy. Said he: "It's a very unhappy day in my life...
...Boom. The prime force in Korea's resurgence is President Park, the taciturn ex-army general who seized power in a 1961 coup, then went public two years later and held elections, squeezing into office by 156,000 votes, out of 11 million cast (in a population of 27 million). Going to work on the country's feeble economy, Park devalued Korea's inflated currency, lured new investment with tax concessions and low-wage labor and started a five-year development plan. To help pay the bills, Park even ignored virulent anti-Japanese feelings in Korea...