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...room Weathermen," as he calls them, Winship frequently sends out "tiger notes," which invariably begin: "Terrific job, Tiger. Keep 'em coming." The fact that the editor frequently wears rumpled seersucker, odd slacks and boots doesn't hurt rapport either. Not that generational and ideological friction is completely absent. Radical Columnist David Deitch was recently removed from the Op-Ed page. Winship explained that the change was to make room for contributions from Ralph Nader and the Black Congressional Caucus; Deitch charged that the paper could no longer swallow his attacks on the Boston financial establishment...
...Republican side of the House chamber. Yet partly because the report was so hastily scheduled at Nixon's request, partly because some Democrats felt they have been used as a foil for Nixon as he scores political points on television, an appalling three-fifths of the Congressmen were absent. Only 22 Democratic Senators and 66 Democratic Representatives attended. Rows of empty seats were filled by Government employees, hastily rounded up to minimize the embarrassment...
...note of restrained cordiality was struck from the moment Nixon landed Monday at the Moscow airport. On hand to greet him were President Nikolai Podgorny, Premier Aleksei Kosygin and Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. Brezhnev was absent, but that was not unusual or slighting. The route to Moscow had been cleaned up for the President's visit. U.S. flags waved alongside Soviet banners on lampposts. In the soft glow of twilight, the glittering domes of the Kremlin churches seemed cheerful and inviting as the limousines crossed the Moscow River and swept into the fastness of the Kremlin...
...some ways, Le Duan's career has been advanced as much by luck as by leadership. In his early years of political activism, he managed, like the young Nikita Khrushchev, to be absent during periods of party turmoil. Between 1954 and 1956, he began to organize political subversion against the regime of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem. Le Duan was thus preoccupied with other matters at the time of the North Vietnamese land-reform debacle of 1956, which ended with the summoning of troops to put down a peasant revolt in Nghe An province. The crisis...
...Crimson performed remarkably well considering that many of its top players could not afford to make the journey northward. Phil Jonchkeer, Pete Kellogg, Dan Daiss, Reed McCarty and Doug Forrester did not travel with the team. Even with many of their best individual players absent, the aquamen exhibited excellent teamwork. Outstanding efforts were turned in by Tracy (Flash) Mallory, Alan (Bozo) Bozer, and (Clark) Kent Osband as well as the usually inspired performance of captain Mike Graff...