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Captain Lissa Muscatine, playing number two, provided the highlight of the singles matches. The sophomore crushed Debbie Knopman in straight sets...
...purpose of these ritual "impeachments" was both to affirm the unity of the people around the kingship and to highlight conflicts around the person of the king himself. Even when no prince or sub-chieftan actually coveted the throne, the ritual demanded that they act as if they did. Their attacks on the king were necessary to emphasize the contrast between the sanctity of the kingship and the human failings of the king. If a particular monarch was a corrupt or cruel despot, the people would not seek to overthrow the social order, but would simply replace the king with...
...Private Slovik, for example, ABC ran The Hanged Man. It was a tidy western-like many of these films a pilot for a possible series-about a sometime hired gun trying to reform himself by helping out the widows and orphans he had formerly oppressed. The picture's highlight was a hellishly ingenious finale in which the hero walked down the heavy into a steamy, bubbling silver smelter...
...Solidify the President's hard-core support and play on the more general public fear of forcibly removing any President from office. This is being done through a public relations campaign designed to highlight the President's achievements in office and the sanctity of the presidency itself. At the same time the effort seeks to obfuscate and obscure Nixon's own Watergate role and portray impeachment as a partisan movement spearheaded by political enemies. At a minimum, the aim is to build enough pressure on normally friendly Senators to prevent conviction on any House-approved impeachment charge...
...work, the four might just as well have been Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Cécile Chaminade and Joan Baez. Actually, they were a committee from the Central Philharmonic Society of the People's Republic of China, perhaps the country's foremost composer. The event was the highlight of the Philadelphia's tour of China, the first such by an American orchestra. The moment is now recalled by a new RCA LP recorded back home...