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...road McGovern divides his time furiously between straight politicking, interviews, rebuilding the fractured Democratic Party, and meetings with potential financial backers. Nixon, straight and stiff, shielded from critics and hecklers, launches into his stereotyped appeals that suggest personal discipline, patriotism and work. McGovern, the underdog, is looser and improvisational. Both men talk and move in different worlds. Nixon's is the White House and continuity-McGovern's is change and challenge...
Fifty miles to the west, a third column, its men dressed in civilian clothes, crossed the border in chartered buses. After a stiff fight at the border town of Kikagati, they headed on to Mbarara, where they stormed the garrison of Uganda's 1,000-man Simba Battalion and, aided by some dissidents who switched allegiances, succeeded in driving the loyalist troops out-but only for the moment...
...voters are enamored of his breezy, folksy style. The Premier holds one or two press conferences a week and sees scores of visitors every day, groaning all the while that the Japanese "must learn the art of coming to the point as fast as possible." Other Premiers have been stiff and unapproachable; Tanaka rattles on to all comers about his favorite movie stars (Gary Cooper, Deborah Kerr), his golf game (he has an 18 handicap), or his impatient manner ("I think like an American"). When a newsman asked the Premier what he had prayed for at a shrine near Nagoya...
...assimilated into the Portuguese way of life, still face discrimination. A mulatto lawyer who works as legal counsel to a large foreign firm was turned away when he applied for an apartment in one of Luanda's high-class districts. Other educated blacks report their advancement frustrated by increasingly stiff barriers to promotion as they rise in the economic hierarchy...
...overcome a sparse him of some of his best prospects. When all those swimming standouts that he'd lined up to build his East Coast empire decided not to come to Harvard after all, his plans to make the Crimson the class of Eastern swimming were given a pretty stiff shove backwards. Now the big question is whether or not he can overcome this setback and get a better season out of his high-geared swim program than last year's 5-4 record...