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...foreign relations, Nixon would now carve out a program of domestic achievement that was equally impressive. Officials, of course, would not necessarily talk with freedom about future programs just before the election, even if they knew of any. The evidence is not conclusive for another reason: a lame duck President's concern about how history will rate him may yet produce surprises...
...post-election date for the nationwide action was chosen because, "Regardless of which way the election went we had a cause to raise"--either to demand that Nixon withdraw troops or, if McGovern had won, to demand that Nixon begin implementation of McGovern's policies during his Jame duck period...
FAVORITE DRINK: The Quacking Quaker (Cribari Cold Duck, Quaker Oatmeal a dash of Scrapple, and a Nabisco Graham cracker...
...Vietnamese words visitors to Hanoi usually learn are may bay (airplane). Just before an attack, children will run along the streets, pointing to the sky and yelling 'May bay!' Shelters are in homes, restaurants, offices and along streets and highways. Seconds before the bombs fall, people will duck into the shelters, and before the dust settles they will be out again, carrying on their business...
...French Council of State set out some guidelines intended to help Frenchmen decide if they had a nom ridicule-a ridiculous, insulting or otherwise unappealing surname-that they could legally change. In the field of animals, from which a number of French surnames are taken, a Monsieur Duck, Cow, Camel, Ass or Snipe would be allowed to change his name, but a Monsieur Ox, Bull, Goat, Nightingale or Leopard would not. Nouns such as tripe, cheese, cemetery and cuckold, and adjectives like hideous and ugly were frowned on as surnames; but unaccountably, villain and pimp were acceptable. The council also...