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There is an inner middle-American humility about Nixon; he is not usually a grandstander. His style is subdued, although in the larger sense he understands the elements of drama. His manner fits that of the Chinese. He dresses plainly. He does not plunge into crowds to shake hands. He moves slowly and talks rather sparingly. He does not launch himself on a grand tour, exhausting himself and his hosts...
Some of that all-or-nothing fervor is fading as the pragmatists take over and ideology dwindles. A Secretary of State such as John Foster Dulles, who could not bear to shake the hand of China's Chou En-lai in 1954, has been replaced by a Nixon, who seems able to embrace anyone and any idea if it looks historically or politically profitable. Few modern leaders have turned themselves about so completely as has Nixon to meet what seems to him the practical demands of the times. Pragmatism, in fact, is fast becoming America...
...finally comes the star. Rocky, Rocky, Rocky. The girls shake red and white pompoms as Rocky's charging down the aisle...
...true, but not for the reasons cited. The best-known story was that he took to sneakers during the war when he ran out of shoe rationing stamps. Actually, for a considerable period of time he had an infection like athlete's foot that he couldn't shake...
...economic innovations that were anathema to Mao. Isolated in the party chairmanship, Mao looked for a means of regaining power-and found the army. With Lin Piao, the army chief, he planned the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, which would use the exuberance of the youthful, radical Red Guards to shake up the party-and shake out Liu and his group...