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...contest was run very much like the old television show, College Bowl. There were two five-member teams playing thirty minute halves. The first team member to press his button had to answer the question by himself. If he missed, the other squad could confer for ten seconds before answering. Questions were assigned different point values, based on their difficulty...
George L. Wessel, an enrolled Republican who heads the AFL-CIO Council in Buffalo, feels that Nixon is "such an egoist that he's liable to burst and push the red button, and then we'd be at war." Despite the efforts of the Republican Party to dissociate itself from Watergate, it appears to have been badly hurt. G.O.P. fortunes seem dim in New Jersey, where voters are selecting a new Governor, and party coffers are empty. "I think the vote is going to be so low that it will be a repudiation of everybody," says a G.O.P...
Agnate played with his yellow "I'm Number One for 'Big Al' Vellucci" button and added, "He's the only man in Cambridge who gives out free meals to the elderly, sets up bingo games and passes out Christmas baskets to the needy. He's the poor-man's candidate...
Showing the 120 people gathered at the Ames Courtroom an "Impeach Nixon" button pinned to his priest's vestment, Drinan said, "The authority of the president is eroding every single day. Events are becoming more and more unbelievable. One of my constituents wrote me that she believes Bebe Rebozo is running the country...
...Americans, illustrate Powell's penchant for isolating national and temperamental types. Glober is a sixtyish, playboy film producer, a self-made man up from Jewish-immigrant slums, who takes a snippet of pubic hair from every woman he seduces. Gwinnett is a withdrawn, thirtyish academic, a descendant of Button Gwinnett, the first signer of the Constitution, who has a whiff of necrophilia in his makeup. Both are drawn to Pamela partly because of her infamous liaison (in Books Do Furnish a Room) with the late writer X. (for nothing, not for Xavier) Trapnel, the possible source of a film...