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...youngest, they don't call me Mommy. John Paul, he's gotten so he calls me Lary Ann. And Mandy, she just looks at me. She doesn't call me anything. At first it upset me. But than I realized that that meant they had more. They had 2 parents. They had to call one of us something else...
...Porter and Cambridge Survey Research were, in the words of Time Magazine, "the youngest--and just possibly the hottest" election consultants. They advised McGovern on what issues he should make his biggest plays, on what grounds he should appeal to the voters. Danny had seen The Candidate and had gotten a kick out of it. He recognized a little bit of himself in that caricature of modern electoral methods, but he told me politics was not empty when "you know you're working for the best...
Such fastidiousness has gotten the state in trouble with the Federal Government. Under the leadership of liberal Governor Francis W. Sargent, the Bay State has refused to become part of the FBI's National Crime Information Center, partly on the ground that the FBI records arrests as well as convictions-a man could be in the criminal file even if he was innocent. In a letter to his second cousin, U.S. Attorney General Elliot Richardson, Sargent took a swipe at Watergate ("To be frank, recent revelations concerning top government employees do not inspire confidence"), and explained that Massachusetts would...
...ROSS HAS GOTTEN good performances from a cast studded with box-office attractions: Richard Benjamin, Dyan Cannon, Raquel Welch, James Coburn, James Mason, Joan Hackett, and Ian McShane. Coburn gives a fine performance as the masterminder of games, supremely certain that his guests will play. His innate arrogance masquerades as razor sharp charm...
John K. Fairbank, professor of History, said last night that Nixon "has always gotten around" previous promises to reduce military actions in Southeast Asia and that he had "no idea" whether the bombing would end on schedule in mid-August...