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Before last Tuesday, Hart supporters at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology considered canceling a campus rally, fearing that few would show up. But when Hart strode on the stage on Friday, his right hand thrust into his suit coat pocket in a J.F.K. stance, 1,200 students jammed the hall chanting: "Gary! Gary...
Smiling confidently, former President Leopoldo Fortunato Galtieri strode into the town-house headquarters of Argentina's Supreme Council of the Armed Forces in downtown Buenos Aires one morning last week and described his mood as "very good." By the time he left, night had fallen, and so had Galtieri's cheer. After nine hours of questioning by Argentina's highest military court, the army general who launched his country's disastrous 1982 war with Britain over the Falkland Islands was under formal arrest. Galtieri was soon joined by the other members of the military junta...
...ruling by Federal District Court Judge Mark Costantino forced the Secretary to appear at the Brooklyn trial. So, just after lunch on Friday, Donovan strode toward the witness stand, smiling and nodding at the courtroom crowd. Petito's lawyer asked Donovan if he had known about any no-show payoff scheme or if he had encouraged Sanzo and Petito to lie. "Absolutely not," replied Donovan confidently...
When U.S. Ambassador Arthur Hartman, 57, strode into Moscow's wedding cake-style foreign ministry last week, it was not a courtesy call. He was there to protest the renewal of mysterious microwave beam transmissions directed at the U.S. embassy. On other occasions, however, the 6-ft. 3-in. Hartman makes it his business to keep the lines of communication open with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and other top officials. Hartman, who worked closely with Henry Kissinger during the Nixon and Ford Administrations, has provided his first on-the-record interview to an American correspondent in Moscow, TIME...
...novels. Instead of being complimented on their versatility, though, they frequently encounter a peculiar problem: facing themselves as competitors. Choices, so the assumption goes, must be made. Which Hemingway is the ultimate winner, the one who broke so many tapes in In Our Time or the one who strode with such manly endurance through The Sun Also Rises? Which O'Hara, which Welty, which Cheever, which Updike? Admirers of a given writer will usually extol the novels; praising short stories can be a subtle form of denigration...