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Image of text reading: Castro also holds powerful opinions on intellectual aspects of sports: Having played both basketball and baseball of almost professional quality, he once provided a visitor with a learned explanation of why basketball is the thinking man's game (There is no telling where a conversation with Fidel may lead). His theory is that whereas basketball requires strategic and tactical planning as well as speed and agility - thus preparing a man for guerrilla war - baseball poses no such needs (the subject came up when Castro forcefully denied a rumor then circulating abroad that he had once hoped to play for the majors in mainland baseball).
Castro's school years also gave him insight into the revolutionary potential of basketball.
Image of text reading: Rasco tells the story of Fidel bragging one day that he could succeed in anything he wanted to do, and when challenged by a student named Cabella, he bet him that he could hurl himself on a bicycle, head first, against a brick wall. Not surprisingly, he fainted from the impact, and he had to spend three days recovering at the school's infirmary.
I'll bet Cabella felt like a real idiot after challenging the great mind of Fidel Castro. (Tad Szulc, Fidel: A Critical Portrait).
Is there any lesson to be learned from this? The Whig Party started collapsing as soon as Taylor was elected, so I guess if you NEED to micro-target your political ads to win, you will be done in by the contradictions of your coalition.
Pamphleteers and newspapers could tailor specific messages to voters in different states. In a brazen example, Truman Smith printed contradictory pamphlets for Whig candidate Zachary Taylor in 1848, claiming that Taylor supported the Wilmot Proviso in the north and opposed it in the south!
This reminds me of the second party system in American politics between 1824 and 1860. Here, presidential elections were not disrupted by new technology, but by the growing electorate, which was previously restricted to the ultra-wealthy and state legislators. Voters were informed by local sources.
newspaper article with text: He must not drink milk. "Now, in the name of all the gods at once, upon what meat doth this our Caesar fend, that he is grown so great?" Julius Caesar, Act I, Scene 3. Dr. Lyman Abbott, who ought to know better, says milk. Milk is food for babes. Is not one who lives on milk a milksop? What is the difference between a milksop and a mollycoddle? But milk would never sustain a Roosevelt. The inference is that he uses milk as a beverage. Milk is not a beverage, it is a food. It sustains life in the infant and the invalid. Any well-equipped physician could tell the colonel that to drink four or five glasses of milk in the course of a hearty meal is to trifle with danger. The resultant fermentation is bound to cause trouble. Milk is not a fit drink for full-grown, hearty men. The colonel is hearty. He likes plain food, and plenty of it. He should drink only pure water, and as little as possible of that with his meals.
Someone took the story quite seriously and wrote a letter to the editor imploring that he stop drinking milk the next day.
Newspaper screenshot with text: Roosevelt drinks too much milk. Denies stories of intemperance and refers to Dr. Abbott, who tells the awful truth. Four glasses at a meal. Incidentally, no whiskey, no high-balls, no cocktails, and what a mild spring we're having.
A rumor circulated during the 1912 presidential election that Theodore Roosevelt had a drinking habit, which he refuted in the funniest way possible. (New York Times, May 21, 1912)
The universal Victoria experience. Then you walk away, or you stick around and invest countless hours into trial and error tests and educating yourself on actual 19th century politics.
Hockey! It happens in almost every game.
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Harris should have tried James Farley's 1940 strategy to get elected president by meeting every single voter in person.
There was a solid century of American history where an economic downturn in your area meant that your bank would go under and you would lose all the money in your savings account. And somehow we carried on.
Only 1/10 the volume of Mukaab. We need to think bigger.
