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...former Yale great changed his strategy this year. He attempted to outshoot Nayar with lethal reverse corners and precision drop shots. Nayar proved this to be a tactical error, as his great chasing game forced Howe to attempt "dangerously accurate" shots and often to hit them into the tin...
...budget as a whole is in bad shape because we're spending $86 billion on our own military, and a lot of our foreign aid money on war toys for tin horn dictators. Not because we're spending what we do in space...
...encouraging a romance between a Sikkimese youth and a Calcutta hairdresser in the hope of importing the kingdom's first coiffeuse. She describes her home as "a poorish palace but a palace." It is a 64-year-old, two-story white stucco building with five bedrooms and a tin roof. In Gangtok, the family gets around in a white Mercedes convertible. On foreign trips, however, they make a point of flying economy class and often stay with friends. "It's no great Oriental splendor we live in," Hope observes...
...Accomplishing the nearly impossible job of bringing under some control Brazil's ruinous inflation, the army's unbending political attitudes alienated so many Brazilians that the military men felt isolated and unappreciated (see following story). In Bolivia, Barrientos' army-backed regime has brought peace to the tin mines on whose exports the country's economic health depends. Yet his somewhat heavy-handed rule has infuriated and alienated Bolivia's students, who occasionally take to the streets in rock-tossing protests against his regime. In Argentina, General Ongania has escaped severe criticism because his military regime...
...Shelly Fireman. "The majority of people who dine out are bored with each other and need something to break down the barriers. A way-out menu gives them something to talk about." Alas, the wit is insipid. Along with the "martini-bopper's special," Fireman's own Tin Lizzie restaurant revels in marginalia: "Sit down in our barber chair and enjoy the last living 5? shoeshine, done with real champagne." Minneapolis' Cork & Fork follows each listing with an entry like "Lionel Barrymore, on one of his many visits to the Cork & Fork before it was opened...