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Later, with Rosalynn absent-unaccountably, she had not been told about the meeting-Nancy talked to Carter in the Oval Office while her husband stood awkwardly by, BURNETT-CONTACT his eyes wandering aimlessly about the room. Nancy conversed intently about the furniture arrangement, the slip covers, the bibelots scattered around, already seeming to be rearranging them in her mind...
...Senate narrowly rejected a similar motion in September, but some of those who opposed it at the time, most notably Senators George McGovern, Frank Church and Warren Magnuson, were absent from last week's session after their election defeats. Several other Senators, including Democrats Alan Cranston and John Glenn, switched their votes to favor the bill. This led to speculation that legislators are becoming reluctant to go on the record in favor of forced busing...
...headed the President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunities and the Aeronautics and Space Council under Kennedy. Harry Truman did not even know about the existence of an atomic bomb when he became president, but Nixon was allowed to preside over the National Security Council when President Eisenhower was absent...
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...slim book cogently faces up to the U.S.'s peculiar public-private hostility-a phenomenon notably absent in other industrial societies, especially in West Germany and Japan. The book's basic message: the growth of Government control over business in the U.S. has been so rapid that almost no one in either the private sector or politics knows how to cope with it. The result: wasteful combat. Writes Irving Shapiro, vice chairman of E.I. duPont de Nemours & Co.: "For a long time the two [business and politics] have been circling around each other like gladiators in combat, blocking...