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...welfare reform, on devaluation, he moved the country to abandon positions long outdated and toward steps long overdue. In so doing, he also destroyed some once sacrosanct myths and shibboleths. The result in the U.S. was a greater sense of reality and of scaled-down expectations; given the temper of the times he inherited, that was mostly to the good. The ultimate judgment of his presidency will depend on how he manages to live within the new reality he himself tried to define?and on whether history accepts his definition...
...almost to frenzy. There may have been other reasons. Perhaps the grim disease which was later to prove mortal had affected his psychological and intellectual equilibrium. Perhaps the spectre of Soviet Russia, now armed with the terrible nuclear weapon, had begun to haunt his dreams. He clearly lost his temper; he may also have lost his nerve. In any event, we and our French allies were now to face an attack, skillfully devised and powerfully executed, in which the protagonists were the Russian and American Governments, acting together in unnatural coalition...
Last year the MIT racquet-men were led by Steve Cross, a huge player whose fiery vocabulary and temper matched his fierce stroke. MIT and Cross didn't win very often, but at least the Engineers' captain kept the crowd entertained...
...return to democracy for his country. "The people did not bring me to power. I came myself." The stocky former army chief of staff, a Pathan who came to power in 1 969 when widespread strikes and dis orders forced President Ayub Khan to step down, showed his quick temper last week during an impromptu speech at a late-night dinner in Islamabad. Lash ing out at Indira Gandhi, he said at one point: "If that woman thinks she will cow me, I refuse to take it. If she wants a war, I'll fight...
...TIME'S World section since mid-1969. Writers for the Review should find Kriss a moderately heavy but craftsmanlike editor with a gift for clarifying complex issues and an eye for the small but telling detail that can brighten a story. Colleagues have become accustomed to a quick temper that he claims is "like a tropical storm-it clears the air and is soon forgotten...