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Taylor had scarcely finished reading when the shelling began. At its sharpest, Oregon's Wayne Morse declared: "I happen to hold the point of view that it isn't going to be too long before the American people will repudiate our war in Southeast Asia...
Modest & Meticulous. The Wildcats owe their sharpest claws to the fact that they have finally learned what Rupp modestly calls "the Kentucky system." Freely translated, it means run, run, run and never, never miss. A perfectionist rather than an innovator, Rupp decries such newfangled tactics as the zone press defense which he sometimes uses but insists on calling a "stratified, transitional hyperbolic paraboloid." He relies on ten offensive plays, which his team practices with a devotion to duty unseen since the Spartans of ancient Greece...
...Solis Ruiz, 52, Minister of the Movimiento Nacional, Spain's bureaucracy-clogged official party, and boss of its labor syndicates. His jowls are heavy and blue, his head is bald, and his speech is thick with the accents of Andalusia, but Pepe Solis is probably the sharpest practicing politician in the land. The father...
...sharpest division is over how hard FDA should bear down on drug safety. Dr. Sadusk was at first expected to favor strict enforcement. But he is convinced that practicing physicians should be free to make their own choices from among many available drugs, all of which have some degree of danger. His opponents now accuse him of betraying the public interest in favor of protecting the pharmaceutical manufacturers. Some recent examples of action, inaction and disputed decisions: ≫ SULFAS. FDA last week announced that it was requiring new labeling on two long-acting sulfa drugs marketed by three firms...
Some of the sharpest gibes at Johnson's efforts came from allied nations, but most of the grumbling had to do with style. The Stuttgarter Zeitung complained about "exaggerated publicity," Le Monde called it "the noisy drive," having more "publicity value than practical bearing." More fundamental was an undertone of criticism of Washington's refusal to negotiate with the Viet Cong as a political entity...