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...president of the University of Michigan, who was backed by the conservatives. After several trips to California, Fleming withdrew from the running and the regents, with less than a solid vote of confidence, picked Saxon. On the final ballot 13 regents voted for Saxon, four abstained and six were absent. Saxon was chosen, says the regents' chairman William French Smith, because, among other reasons, he knew how the system works: "You can't take too many risks when putting someone in charge of a billion-dollar-plus operating budget...
...Evil Count (Gregroy Meeh) asks the benevolent, absent-minded King (Robin Brecker) what to do about the angry mob at the palace gates...
...wife Bonnie; Los Angeles Auto Dealer Holmes Tuttle, a star G.O.P. fund raiser, and his wife Virginia; and onetime Radio Star Freeman Gosden (Amos of Amos 'n' Andy) and his wife Jane. Comedian Bob Hope arrived at the wheel of a station wagon with Wife Dolores. Notably absent: Spiro T. Agnew, who was ensconced near by as a house guest of Sinatra...
...interview. "I think the dirts tricks people in the Nixon campaign brought about the defeat of Ed Muskie. They feared Muskie. They knew he was the toughest candidate. They did everything they could to chop him up and cut him down. And I think given an ordinary situation, and absent the dirty tricks that were played. Muskie would have been the nominee...
...Walzer's analysis of the Middle East situation, objectivity was conspicuously absent. He states that "only the United States can insist on and win concessions from the Arab states." Who will, I ask, insist on and win concessions from Israel? The Soviets? The simple fact is that for peace to come about, Israel will have to make concessions. I refer Walzer to the recent statement by Senator Charles percy (R-III)" After returning from a trip to the Middle East, percy stated that he saw no chance of a Middle East peace unless Israel draws back essentially to its frontiers...