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...gripped the podium tightly, his features uncustomarily taut. He was forceful and self-assured. Yet his knowledge of the specifics of government did not seem markedly superior to Carter's. Carter would seem to have greater potential but be a greater risk. Ford would seem to be safer but less exciting...
...flashes sometimes came as the cameras cut away from the candidate who was speaking to focus on the other's reaction. In the first debate, a grim Nixon, his features taut, avoided looking at his adversary, and his eyes darted warily about the studio. As Nixon spoke, a seemingly relaxed Kennedy looked directly at the nervous Vice President...
...genuine prewar space hero at New York's Second Annual Nostalgia Convention. Buster Crabbe, better known as fearless Flash Gordon since he filmed the 40 or so movie-serial episodes in the 1930s, was the top attraction at the three-day gathering of memorabilia hounds. A taut-looking 68 and the author of a new physical-fitness book called Energistics, Crabbe now pushes prefabricated swimming pools in Arizona, but he would not mind getting back into the flicks. Yet today, he says, "I'd rather play a bad guy than a hero-it would be more...
Reports TIME Correspondent Bonnie Angelo: "He is brushed with star quality-it is almost tangible as he races through a factory or strides down a street. In appearance, there is about this taut, intense, self-sufficient man an anthracite hardness. His nose is bony and defined with a hook that is faintly fierce. His mouth, unlike Jimmy Carter's, does not rest in a smile. Relaxed, it is the mouth of a tennis player who is psyched up and poised, waiting for the serve. He speaks in lean sentences, quoting Aristotle, the Bible, and Dylan Thomas. He tosses erudite...
...time Berlinguer had finished, the rally had quieted down and there were no further incidents. But the heated exchange with Rossi and the close brush with a real disturbance had shown how taut Italian political nerves are these days-and how far the Communists' appeal for unity among the parties has to go before it becomes a reality...