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...predecessor, Floyd Wilson, preferred to wait for the good shot to open up and was willing to pass the ball around the periphery for minutes at a time if necessary. In contrast, Harrison, a former NBA All-Star, stresses motion towards the ball and towards the basket...
Called the Mark 8A, McLaren's new car looks like its predecessor. "I think a lot of people were disappointed that we did not come up with something revolutionary," says McLaren, "but we never do anything completely different." Both cars, for example, have an airplane-type monocoque, or frameless chassis, to get maximum strength from minimum weight. Still, there are subtle yet important differences. While the Mark 6A weighed 1,520 Ibs., the new car weighs only 1,450 Ibs.-less than a Volkswagen. The weight-saving was mainly accomplished by completely eliminating the chassis behind the driver...
...When one takes snuff," says Negotiator Theodore Kheel, "the others all sneeze." The growth of militant civil service unions, a cause of both strikes and higher budgets, is a nationwide phenomenon -and was actually encouraged by Lindsay's Democratic predecessor, Robert Wagner, son of the author of the Wagner Labor Relations Act. Wagner's cozy policy was to play along with the unions and give them most of what they wanted, thus piling up huge due-bills without much thought of the future. Still, Wagner (now U.S. Ambassador to Spain) was an extremely skillful negotiator. Another Mayor with...
Shriver's personality has helped in his new diplomacy, but he was also fortunate to arrive at the time of a new detente cordiale between the U.S. and France. Chip Bohlen, Shriver's predecessor, got along well enough with De Gaulle personally. But official relations began to thaw only after President Johnson restricted the bombing of North Viet Nam in March. De Gaulle hailed that as "an act of reason and political courage." The general was no less pleased with the choice of Paris as the site for the Washington-Hanoi negotiations. Then came France...
...film, for instance, made a great point of showing the camaraderie and sense of community of the students in the five buildings during the days of occupation, the Cox Report states that "within the buildings time often passed slowly. Each day was a less exciting day than its predecessor, except for rumor, incidents, and political debate." But, it does also describe or provide a witness's description of the "real community spirit" in the buildings. For the Commission the rebellion was not a display of the "new life" or of "liberation," but rather a political confrontation that had causes...