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...severely undermine what little European unity exists. Delors held 13 separate meetings with West German Finance Minister Gerhard Stoltenberg, some lasting hours, some just a few minutes. According to a West German insider, Delors's behavior was "beyond belief." He was said to have threatened, raged and thrown temper tantrums. Said Stoltenberg privately of the marathon negotiations: "It was an experience I would not want to repeat." But in the end, Delors's intransigence paid off. He improved on Mitterrand's "final" position by obtaining a 5.5% mark revaluation and a 2.5% devaluation of the franc...
Everything about Godfrey seemed to capture the public's imagination. When he fired his prize discovery, Singer Julius LaRosa, on live network TV in 1953, purportedly for "lack of humility," the incident made front pages across the country. So did another burst of temper the next year, when Godfrey, an avid pilot, grew angry with the flight instructions he had been given for his DC-3 and buzzed an airport control tower in Teterboro...
...asks the fat lady on the in dusty Texas sidewalk, "were you really Mac Sledge?" Mac (Robert Duvall) squints and says, "Yes, I guess I was." A successful country songwriter is what he was, and the husband of a high-octane singer named Dixie (Betty Buckley), till a nasty temper and too much liquor drove him out of Dixie's limelight. Now he is trying to find a modest parcel of dignity for himself, his new wife Rosa Lee (Tess Harper) and her boy Sonny (Allan Hubbard). But it's hard: "I'm missin' the music...
What is prompting such statements? Shultz attributed his remarks in China to "a little annoyance and a lot of fatigue." Intimates suggest that the pressures of his job are bringing the private side of Shultz into public view. Says one: "He has a hell of a temper. You should play golf with him." Perhaps Shultz is trying to show the White House and Pentagon that he is no pushover. Indeed, many in the State Department hope that Shultz is getting into fighting trim for the foreign policy battles ahead...
Outside the studio were two dozen demonstrators, a group roughly the size and temper that showed up at most of the stops. There were Latins ("Malvinas, Malvinas belong to Argentina!") angry about the Falklands war, but most were Irish Americans urging independence for Northern Ireland. Their placards outside Fox's gates: BRITS OUT OF IRELAND and, more immediately, BRITS OUT OF AMERICA. A small anti-anti-British crowd gathered too. "I wasn't planning to watch for the Queen," said British Transplant Lesley Heathcote, 25, who wore a BRITAIN is GREAT T shirt and had a pet chow...