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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...career diplomat who is widely respected at the U.N., was not informed that he was to be bounced to make way for Moynihan -or anyone else. Nor was there any direct word from the President or from his staff to the three Cabinet officers on Nixon's drop list: Interior's Walter Hickel, Treasury's David Kennedy and Agriculture's Clifford Hardin. The likely explanation is that Nixon wants to pressure the three men into resigning on their own. Says one staffer in the Office of Management and Budget: "It's our theory that...
...students have exhausted their resources against the war and are now devising new methods. Liberal Senator can rightly be asked "Just what can you do to stop this war and exactly how much have you done?" The list of so-called dove senators includes most major contenders for the democratic presidential nomination in 1972. It is difficult to foresee any massive student support building around a man who would not step into the fight at this crucial time and lead the antiwar forces...
Inspect the bestseller list. Charlie O. has it cornered. He is the tattletale from whom we learn Everything W'e Always Wanted to Know About Sexand a lot we didn't really want to know, thanks all the same. Charlie O.'s Complaint is not that he can't help doing it but that he can't help talking about it. In the theater, Charlie O. is the playwright shouting the most four-letter words the loudest. He is also the journalist who will share with 7,000,000 readers a 20-year...
Foreign nations retaliate against the new U.S. restrictions, and angry U.S. politicians and businessmen press Nixon to hit back by putting up barriers against an even longer list of imports. Cooler heads in all nations warn that such a cycle of retaliation and counterretaliation, carried to the extreme, can have the most chilling consequences. The last such spiral began duringand did much to deepenthe Great Depression. But the margin for good sense is slim, as the world teeters on the brink of a trade war that no one wanted...
...this. The question is why. Surely there is a considerable surplus of these caper epics, involving the intricate mechanics of some complicated robbery scheme and the assorted tensions and rivalries, professional or romantic, among the people who carry them through. Gambit, Topkapi, How to Steal a Millionthe list seems endless. But the genre is not, as Perfect Friday proves...