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ROBERT TAFT JR., 53, Republican, Ohio, carries the most celebrated political name into a pledge class laden with famous names. Grandson of a President and Chief Justice, son of "Mr. Republican," he joins the Senate as an automatic headliner. Even of temper, measured of style, he is short on color, long on homework. He is more liberal than the Administration, but fundamentally a party...
Page lost again to Terrell in the intercollegiate championships on Princeton's Jadwin courts, and once more he displayed his temper with shouts, stalling, and numerous disputed let calls. But after being soundly thrashed in three, straight games, here was Page standing with a sinister smile under his mustache. Only Lamont Cranston knew exactly what evil thoughts lurked in Palmer's mind...
...boys started turning around when she passed, and the empty social calendar was soon crammed. There was still no money: during her freshman summer Ali waited on tables at the Chalfonte-Haddon Hall hotel in Atlantic City. Brother Dick remembers the pretty 18-year-old with the Irish temper simmering on the back burner. "To me, she really became a human being the time she was waiting on a table with a great bunch of waitress-kidders. They began riding her, and suddenly a whole tray of food landed on them...
What gives Nolen's book an unmistakable ring of truth is his unsparing criticism of himself. He offers no excuses as he tells how he lost his temper with a patient who refused to let him cut into a vein for a transfusion; he assumes full responsibility for an operation that resulted in the death of another. Nor does he hide his pride in his growing proficiency. "A surgeon needs conceit," he says. "He needs it to sustain him in trying moments when he's battered by the doubts and uncertainties that are part of the practice...
Only occasionally does he get emotional and turn away from his prepared notes. In response to heckling last week his temper rose, "Since when does the public have the right to take the law into its own hand? Since when do tenants get their rights by threatening violence...