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Tosco said, 'Tough. Strong. No fooling.' He made a fist and shook it under Father's chin. 'Like this...
...revolutionized the arcade business, then dominated by pinball machines. Bushnell, though, ran into a problem frequently suffered in start-up businesses: growth got out of control. The company lost heavily for several months on one popular product, Trak Ten. Explains Bushnell: "We thought we were making money hand over fist, but the machine was selling for $995 and costing $1,100 to build. We were shipping a $100 bill out the door with every unit...
...frieze of drawn motifs, as in the mural he did for Peggy Guggenheim in 1943, the result-as drawing-was rather monotonous. But when he found he could throw lines of paint in the air, the laws of energy and fluid motion made up for the awkwardness of his fist and, from then on, there was no grace that he could not claim. Compared with his paintings, the myth of Pollock is of no importance...
...flower-covered main gate to give news of the talks to the crowd outside. His appearance was greeted by cheers and rousing choruses of Sto Lat (May He Live a Hundred Years). He responded with his actor's instincts, regaling his audience with jokes and raising his clenched fist in salute. Bantering with foreign journalists, he announced, "I am the leader...
Though the major NATO governments oppose the antimissile movement, they are not blameless. "We believe the Europeans are too timid in dealing with paci fist sentiment," says a Pentagon official. "They see no political rewards for themselves in speaking out on nuclear weapons policy and tend to back away from the debate. These governments have to do it for themselves." Says Christoph Bertram, director of the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies: "There are a lot of people in West Germany today who would accept a reasonable explanation of why the government believes [defense] is so important. The people...