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...very clear. As President I cannot do otherwise but abide by the Constitution and the law. And I have mentioned very clearly that unfortunately the ticket which remains is mine. (Laughter.) Now Vice President Ky suggests that I resign. Why? I have no reason for that. I cannot abandon the country. I would be accused by the people and the historians. To the army I also said very clearly, if the whole army comes here to say "You betray your country, you go against the people," you can have a very peaceful coup d'état. (Laughter.) If [however...
...water have sought to boost sales by attacking the quality of municipal drinking water. Schweppes Ltd. found the reception chilly when it developed plans to test-market bottled water in Philadelphia with ads that slurred the city's water supply. Fear of official complaints prompted the company to abandon the project before it got started...
Blanket and Slipper. Le Club began its career in 1969, after Founder Ferdinand Koos was forced to abandon his vacation because most French hotels were put off by the fact that he planned to bring along his three Great Danes. It now boasts 800 host families and 1,000 satisfied customers. One of them is William Bader, an American foundation official who left his Irish setter, Shenandoah, with the club for two weeks. "When the young driver called for my setter," he reported, "he asked to take along the dog's blanket and an old slipper. When I said...
Judaism and Christianity have always placed primacy in man. Now this primacy is being attacked by what I call the neoconservative ecological approach to life: the idea that nature has primacy and man is subordinate, and thus must abandon what is best for himself in order to do what is right for the earth...
...salvation-or at least to survival. If it did not overripen, as style tends to do, it might occasionally reveal what Papa called "the real thing." Mason Smith and Alvin Greenberg, two promising stylists and fledgling novelists, each offer one for the road. Both books have hitchhiking protagonists who abandon cloisters of respectability for the unexpected. But there the similarities...