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...Last spring's riots in the wake of Martin Luther King's assassination wrought a peculiar change in Agnew. When he saw the Negroes who had helped him to defeat Mahoney rioting in the ghettos, he took it practically as a personal offense, reacting in the style of the stiff-necked counterpuncher...
There is general agreement that Britain has made an honest stiff-upper-lip effort to right its economy. The fact remains that the country's balance of payments problem is chronic, despite such stringent measures as devaluation of the pound, a bare-bones national budget, tight wage controls and heavy new taxes...
...since blue-bearded Sal Maglie, who used to point his glove like a pistol at the batter's heart during his follow-through, has there been an angrier, more arrogant or more confident man on the mound. A chunky, 5-ft. 11-in. 190-pounder, McLain stands there stiff-backed, briefly fingering the resin bag before throwing it violently to the ground. Like a high-school wise guy, he tilts his cap so far down over his eyes that he has to cock his head back to see the catcher's signs. Then, with the barest hint...
...were charged with "group activities in flagrant violation of public order," face up to three years in labor camps. Litvinov, a physicist, and Mrs. Daniel have a long record of dissent, having protested such other Soviet actions as the literary trial last January at which three intellectuals were handed stiff prison sentences for unorthodoxy...
...brother Alvaro, Argentina's Ambassador to the U.S., had taken a major role in shaping the military government's "Argentine revolution." That program promised economic reform to bolster the country's flagging economy. But Alsogaray favored a more democratic political base for the revolution, while the stiff-necked President favored a tightly controlled corporate state and resisted all politically broadening efforts. The difference brought the two increasingly into public conflict...