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...determined to remain so. With Stagg's record in sight, he left early Sugar Bowl preparation to his aides and went off recruiting. Barnstorming across Alabama, Georgia and Florida in a plane owned by the Alabama Athletic Department, he contracted a cold and ear infection trying to woo blue-chip players to Tuscaloosa. This year, he admits, he recruited during the summer for the first time in 20 years...
Sadat's insistence on linking in some way the Egyptian-Israeli treaty with movement toward autonomy in the West Bank and Gaza is, in part, a strategy to woo Arab moderates. Saudi Crown Prince Fahd specifically warned Sadat: "The extent of linkage will determine the extent to which we can support Camp David in the Arab world...
...after all was expected to unload $3 million a day on the city. Hilton Chief Barren Hilton himself called the A.T.A. convention manager, Vaughn Bonham, to thank him for selecting the Hilton (a choice made almost ten years in advance). For months, suppliers worked on themes for parties to woo the truckers. Cases and cartons and carcasses flowed into the bowels of the Hilton, from the trucks that many delegates owned, as if in preparation for a siege...
...most consistent performances are William Falk's as Josephine's father, Captain Corcoran, and Patty Woo's as Buttercup. Both seem to know instinctively that they have to keep a lot of activity on stage, and their duet, "Things Are Seldom What They Seem," was the best number of the evening. Weary may sing better, but Falk and Woo tiptoe, mug and enliven their business the way the whole cast might have...
...without fullscale war. To whites, America is an unreliable ally, which must be drawn in on their side in the fight against the liberation movement. More and more, South African government officials describe apartheid-ruled South Africa as Africa's last hold-out against Marxism, in an effort to woo American support for their position. Always they ask, both blacks and whites, what the U.S. will do when it comes down to the wire, whether it will intervene, and on which side. Cyrus Vance is in Pretoria this weekend discussing Namibia, so the question is particularly relevant. Unfortunately...