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India's Prime Minister Morarji Desai, 81, works twelve hours every day, travels incessantly around India addressing public meetings, talks with vigor and bluntness to his countrymen and conducts the business of government wherever he happens to be at the time...
...that none of the pensioners are quite so feeble as the play. As dramatic carpentry, The Gin Game is made of balsa wood, while the performances of Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy rival the sturdiest oaks. Their artistry is compelling, and they supply the play with, its only bracing vigor...
...year; the Dow is now more than 14% lower than it was on New Year's Eve. And the 1977 sag only climaxes a decade of disappointment. Indeed, the stock market, once a great driving force and sensitive indicator of the U.S. economy, has been steadily losing its vigor, and its hold on investors' minds, for most of the past dozen years...
...first flush of his success, Elvis lived with the crazy vigor of a good ole boy who just had the whole world tucked snugly into the back pocket of his overalls. He surrounded himself with home-town cronies, kept them fed and cared for, dispensed lavish gifts. He gave away luxury cars-particularly the Cadillacs he doted on-like gumdrops. After a while, though, the cronies became heavies-bodyguards, procurers-and the gifts bribes to buy loyalty, or silence. He courted a girl, Priscilla Beaulieu, he had met during his Army hitch. He persuaded her father to let her come...
Luscomb believes that everybody has the same responsibility for the welfare of human society and that, even as women campaign for absolute equality, they must fight with equal vigor against discrimination of any kind, racial or national. This kind of "all the human race are one" outlook on life seems as overly optimistic and simplistic as a Sunday-school teacher convinced of the essential benevolence of man despite the evidence to the contrary vocally presented by her obstreperous charges. And yet Luscomb's idealism is linked to unshakeable political beliefs. One might find fault with her world political analysis (Russia...