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...find it a bit awkward to convince a wayward youth to be honest or just while our President sets such a startling example to the contrary," he wrote. A pro-Nixon letter from Newport Beach countered: "From the Viet Nam War through Watergate and calling Brezhnev's bluff, Mr. Nixon's full name should be President Guts Nixon...
...bluff and amiable Whitelaw, 55, had closeted himself at Stormont Castle for the past six weeks for long sessions with party leaders, drawing on the considerable store of personal good will he has earned in Ulster in order to achieve an understanding. The agreement was finally sealed in a late evening bargaining session, though in usual Ulster fashion the pact momentarily tottered at the brink of angry dissolution...
...divest itself of Gulf Oil stock two years ago, the University said it preferred to hold onto its shares in order to maintain influence over Gulf's actions. The University could conceivably demand that AP&L install the safeguards, but if AP&L refuses, Harvard will lose its bluff...
...question that can properly be asked is whether a worldwide alert, with all the inevitable anxieties that attended it, was necessary. In view of the Brezhnev letter, obviously some response seemed called for. While Lyndon Johnson got away with calling the Soviet bluff, Nixon might not have. And Nixon's policy did work, in the sense that the Russians did not send troops to the Middle East. That pragmatic measure does not, however, rule out the possibility that perhaps some less dramatic action might have ended the crisis, particularly if Brezhnev and Nixon understand each other as well...
With the law looming on one side, the mob moving in on the other, Charley Varrick is the definitive outside man-or, as he bills himself, "the last of the independents." As he has shown previously in Dirty Harry, Coogan's Bluff and Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Director Don Siegel likes the peril such a situation can hold, as well as the sort of crusty dignity it can instill. Charley Varrick is different from much of his recent work, though, in that it is a little more leisurely, relaxed and sardonic...