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Nixon sent Henry Cabot Lodge to renew semi-official contacts with the Vatican then visited the Vatican himself, eliciting the Associated Press statement: "Pope Paul VI and President Nixon apparently are forming strong working links between the Vatican and the White House. Their personal friendship also appears to be growing." In the October 6 New York Times, an article entitled, "The Pope and the President" is critical of both but, of greater interest, the official seals of both are prominently displayed side-by-side above the title...
...wandered around during the break trying to meet girls. Girls of 15, 13, 11, 9. I met Donna, president of the Bobby Sherman Fan Club of Waltham. She hadn't slept for two nights, but had laid on her bed gazing through the semi-darkness, punctured only by her night light, at the pictures of Bobby which covered every square inch of wall space. Pictures of him even lined her bureau drawers. She considered Bobby her roommate. She had never heard of Frankie Avalon...
Those sequences which employ metaphor also have limited success, for their meaning comes less from their formal mode than from a semi-representational correspondence to real events. One sequence finds Berto singing scales on "oh." Leaud, standing directly behind her, begins to strangle her and say "ah"; she falters, begins brokenly saying "ah," and with Leaud's approval ends singing scales on "ah." Because the sequence represents something far more awful than the action it presents, it cannot avoid a note of falseness. It is not at all suggestive formally because the meaning to which it refers bears no relation...
...Charlie's confidence is contagious, the Crimson squad could find itself in St. Louis for the NCAA semi-finals. "We were a little tight last year, because we were still learning about each other, and consequently we were kind of tight. But we're confident and loose this year, and if we play one game at a time, we could go all the way." Thomas said...
Meanwhile, Kissinger and company decided to move another aircraft carrier, Saratoga, into the eastern Mediterranean to join Independence, which had sailed eastward after the hijackings occurred. A group of C-130 transport planes was flown from Europe into Turkey. An airborne brigade had already been placed on semi-alert in Germany. At a later meeting, the group proposed moving a third carrier, John F. Kennedy, into the Med, and ordering the helicopter carrier Guam and its Marine landing team to leave North Carolina for scheduled NATO maneuvers in the Mediterranean a day early. Each move, as the Administration anticipated...