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...there were at least ten plots and two actual attempts to kill him. Once, on a road near Paris, his black presidential Citroën was riddled with bullets. But De Gaulle and his wife remained sitting erect in the back seat, refusing even to duck. After all, he once wrote: "Adversity attracts the man of character . . . He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility...
...press and staff buses trailing behind. One Secret Service agent, one newsman and one White House staff girl were injured, none seriously. Nixon's longtime secretary, Rose Mary Woods, who had been along in 1958 when the vice-presidential motorcade was mobbed and stoned in Venezuela, shouted: "Duck! It's just like Caracas...
...restore stock to customers of failing brokers, all may be well for investors, though not necessarily for their brokers. The Goodbody furore has improved the bill's chances, but it still could be put aside in an adjournment rush at the end of Congress's lame-duck session. If the S.I.P.C. bill fails and the trouble continues, Wall Street will face a terrifying unknown: What would be the consequences of the failure of a major house whose customers are not protected by anyone in either downtown Manhattan or Washington...
...second explanation is the truthful one, it would still leave unexplained a three-week period during which Cambridge police were searching out Ryan and the others. But the fact that all four list addresses and telephone numbers in Cambridge or Boston and have made no effort to duck police since July places in doubt the official explanation that there has been no deliberate delay in pursuing the arrests. And the fact that police seized Ryan not at home but at an SDS office in Boston-other SDS members as well as Ryan himself claim that he had not been there...
...soft-drink selection into a fine art. With hors d'oeuvres, for example, he advises Squirt, or a dry cola like Royal Crown; with oysters, Bitter Lemon. "Any white soda pop," he suggests, goes well with chicken. Orange Crush, on the other hand, is "particularly nice with duck or goose." Red meat, of course, demands either Coca-Cola or Pepsi-Cola. Dr. Pepper is splendid with game. A celery tonic or chocolate phosphate complements corned beef and pastrami, although "for the adventurous, an egg cream may be most pleasing." With cheese, almost anything goes, and for fruit and nuts...