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...Daley machine. Isaacs always appeared at his side, managed his election campaigns, and, as Kerner's director of state revenue, helped arrange the race-track stock deal that led to their both being convicted last week. "Kerner's unblemished record was broken by his inability to withstand the enormous pressures of evil that descend upon the person who sits in the Governor's chair," said Daniel Walker, who now sits in the same Governor's office...
...Namath and other athletes have painfully learned, the human knee was not designed by nature to withstand a twisting action (torque) when the leg is held rigid by a cleated shoe planted firmly in soft ground. To orthopedists nothing is more predictable than this "football knee." Houston's Dr. Bruce Cameron reasoned that while players must have cleats to ensure good traction, they need to be released from the fixed stance when they are hit by a block or tackled. So he designed shoes with a cleat plate that rotates in the middle of the sole. The player...
...form a new government, stood the Progressive Conservative Party, which has only two fewer seats than Trudeau's Liberals. Trudeau is still aloft, and could remain there for months-or he could topple in a matter of days or weeks. It depends less on his ability to withstand the Tories' attacks than on whether he gets a helping hand from a third party...
...geometry of their relationship was based on Virginia's dependence upon Leonard in practical and critical matters, and his need of Virginia, particularly in times of pain and disappointment. How remarkable it is that she ever found in one man Leonard's capacity for intense, irradiating love able to withstand childlessness, madness and the ordinary exasperations of matrimony. Apparently Leonard did not recent Virginia's demands, even though he married her without having been informed by her family that she had twice been insane and once attempted suicide...
...complex including a plaza that can accommodate 60,000 worshipers. The steel, aluminum and concrete structure, embellished with rare marble inside, drew fire from some disconcerted critics, who think it spoils the austere prospect of Fuji. But the critics can scarcely wish it away. The shrine is built to withstand the strongest earthquakes, and Architect Kimio Yokoyama placidly expects it to be good for at least 2,000 years...