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There is a certain remoteness between Yovicsin and his players. A mild-mannered man with a subdued sense of humor, he sometimes cracks a grin which might widen into a smile. At games he more often scowls up and down the sidelines. Yovicsin does not have any pretensions of being an inspirational coach. Pre-game speeches are brief and unemotional, and if anybody attempts to arouse the team, it is either a player or an assistant coach...
When a reporter referred to the "cancellation" of his campaign plans, the President snapped: "When you don't have plans, you don't cancel plans." He did a little more to widen the credibility chasm by insisting that "I didn't get weary" during his Asia trip, even though hundreds of newsmen who accompanied him noted that he looked puffy-eyed and haggard. "Most of this weariness," said the President, in one of several barbed cracks at the press, "was some of you engaging in introspection...
...spring long, signs of economic troubles had been piling up. Britain's trade gap had continued to widen-by $67 million in June alone. Gold and hard-currency reserves had fallen by $372 million in four months. Inadvertently, Wilson himself had speeded the crisis. Before leaving for his trip to Moscow fortnight ago, he explained to the House of Commons that the new 7% bank rate had been urgently necessary to defend the pound, then went on to add that other emergency measures would come in ten days' time. The warning unnerved investors and sent the pound plunging...
...assuming the position, Selker said, he will continue the general policies he has had as coordinator of studies. He will maintain his of forts to strengthen and widen the undergraduate program at the Center...
...Christopher, 58, a Greek-born, self-made dairy tycoon, is as nubbly as Reagan is smooth. He points proudly to his distinguished mayoral record, seeks to widen his liberal-Republican base by supporting such conservative causes as fiscal integrity and increased support for local police. Most important, he asserts, he is the only Republican with sufficiently broad support to win in November; recent polls, his aides note, show him beating Brown by a margin of 15%, whereas a Reagan-Brown battle would be a dead heat. The same polls, however, show Christopher trailing Reagan in the primary race, and most...