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Royal Yokel. In that time an arrogant young upstart was transformed into a chastened commander with an inglorious but practical strategy: fight in small detachments, hit and run, scorch the earth, demolish captured castles. In a single year of maniacal activity and stunning hardship, Bruce reconquered two-thirds of Scotland and during the next five years he successively reduced almost all the major English fortresses north of the border. "On any showing," says Historian Barrow, "this must be reckoned one of the great military enterprises of British history...
Army General Manuel Odria, then in power, scoffed at the upstart architect and declared Belaúnde's candidacy illegal for lack of enough petition signatures. Belaúnde called a protest demonstration in downtown Lima, raised high a Peruvian flag, and shouting "Adelante!", led a mob of 1,000 toward the President's palace. Waiting police hurled tear gas. His eyes streaming, Belaúnde delivered an ultimatum: "I will wait half an hour. If by then I have not been inscribed, we will march." Odria grudgingly let him run. In the voting, Belaúnde lost...
...definite "Come, let us reason together" ideas about the business of legislation. It was not the justifiability, but the propriety of Senator Robert Kennedy's recent "Shirley Temple" performance before Senator Edward Long's Judiciary Subcommittee that disturbed Scott. He criticizes Kennedy in terms of a young upstart who has hurt his chances for advancement in the cantilevered power echelons of the Senate by antagonizing a powerful elder...
...Episcopalian; but all he really believes in is old money and old family (twelve generations), and he observes that faith by celebrating 365 Condescension Days a year. This condescension drips like ungentle rain on anyone beneath-club stewards, upstairs maids, college deans, headwaiters, and Mike Connor, an upstart Irish colleague in his uncle's brokerage house. Then, at age 30, "Lock" suddenly suffers a rupture in his social conscience, a vestigial organ that probably never bothered a Thompson before...
Last week, while preparing for the Nov. 28 annual pro draft, the scouts opened their books on the men who will be getting the big money-and big it will be. With the upstart American Football League challenging the staid old N.F.L. for talent, a promising young man can write his own ticket-bonus of $25,000 and up, free car, free house, $15,000-a-season salary, twice what rookies earned a few years ago. TIME'S pro-picked All-America...