Word: returning
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...state, had three children but no money. Without even showing identification, they were signed up for the whole program on the spot. Another presented herself at a local office and though not asked for identification, volunteered to present a rent receipt. Whereupon she left the office, only to return with a bogus receipt written on a scrap of paper bag by Mrs. Whitner...
...last week that it might continue that way. Egyptian Ambassador to the U.N. Mohammed Zayyat maintained in a Face the Nation telecast that all the missiles had been in the zone when the cease-fire began. But he suggested that Cairo would be willing to pull them back in return for a U.S. guarantee that Israel would never launch a pre-emptive attack on Egypt...
...into the Arab world, Syria drifted quickly into the orbit of Soviet influence. Moscow is footing half the bill for a $400 million high dam on the Euphrates, and has agreed to build oil-storage tanks at the Horns refinery and lay 500 miles of pipeline. In return, the Russians have been granted full bunkering, refueling and repair facilities at the Syrian port of Latakia. Syria's radical rulers affect a style closer to Peking's brand of Communism than Moscow's, however, and they have never hesitated to play the two giants off against one another...
...truth." So he began by saying that as sorry as newspapers are they are in some cases improved over their pasts, then decided that the functions of most reports could easily be accomplished by machines, and ultimately improved the thought by calling us whores. This multiple insult producing no return blows (and even some agreeable chuckles), Mailer lost his fighting balance. He had grown accustomed to audiences that either wildly cheered him or shouted that he could go fuck himself. Now, he appeared nonplussed by an audience regarding him in some dull Rotarian lumpishness: we had heard, at this point...
Most likely, though, any purge or reform must await the return of a strong Democratic president with the guts to lend his prestige to the effort. Not since FDR has the presidential party ever amassed enough muscle to intimidate the congressional party-although the prospects have improved somewhat since the Johnson-Rayburn days. While Galbraith may be right about the Dixie nemesis, no one should expect the Democratic Party to inflict on itself a massive internal bleeding in its current state of health. With perhaps a lingering nostalgia for the days of Southern populism, some liberals expect the problem...