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...League officials still insist that the A.F.L. cannot come close to the N.F.L. on the playing field. "My impression," says Giant Coach Allie Sherman, "is that the caliber of ball in the American League is closer to that of the Big Ten than the N.F.L." Remarks like that provoke wrath in such A.F.L. coaches as San Diego's Sid Gillman and New York's Weeb Ewbank-both of whom coached title-winning teams in the N.F.L. before switching. "The two leagues are absolutely equal now," says Gillman. "Our top teams are every bit as good...
...after an intricate and mystery-shrouded confrontation that would do honor to Machiavelli, Johnson forced the $2.9 billion aluminum industry to bow to Government pressure and retreat from a price increase. It was the first such backdown since the steel industry's retreat before John Kennedy's wrath in 1962, and it marked the beginning of a new phase in Johnson's relations with U.S. business...
...closest thing to a united nation that can be found in black Africa. More important, the four African ethnic groups -Bantu, Nilotic, Nilot-Hamitic and the Hamites-are in greater harmony now than ever before, much to the relief of whites and Asians who might otherwise feel their random wrath...
...awoke to the 20th century. Suddenly, bombs exploded in the night, and walls proclaimed the scrawled slogan: "Corsica for the Corsicans!" By last week, the Corsican question had even entered France's presidential campaign. Rightist Candidate Jean-Louis Tixier-Vignancour stormed across the island, hoping to turn Corsican wrath against Charles de Gaulle...
...rumors racing through Moscow's literary under ground last week, the man who wrote those words was himself in a place no worse than hell-the Lubianka prison. "Abram Tertz," the pseudonymous critic of the Soviet system, had for more than six years eluded the Kremlin's wrath while smuggling out satiric manuscripts to be published abroad. These included The Trial Begins (1959), a savage study of Soviet life in the New Class, and Fantastic Stones (1962), a collection which Western critics compared with Kafka and Gogol. Was the man in the Lubianka really Abram Tertz? Western Kremlinologists...