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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Nixon took dancing lessons to please his steady college date, Ola Florence: one night he appeared at her house, announced that he could dance and immediately proved it. Says Ola Florence: "He was smart and sort of set apart. I think he was unsure of himself, deep down." Another Whittier girl remembers: "He didn't know how to be personable or sexy with girls, He didn't seem to have a sense of fun. I felt a kind of amused affection for him, like, 'Oh. Dick, come off it.'" However, Nixon really let go the night...
...pauses. What she does convey eloquently are the fears and anxieties of a fiercely devoted wife, especially during the last two bleak years. In 1967 the Johnsons entered what she calls "the Valley of the Black Pig."*She was frankly alarmed by demonstrators: "Through every pore, you sense a sort of animal passion . . . What if I had suddenly broken into a run?" What she did, of course, was assume her "riding in the tumbrel" stance-shoulders square, head high, smile in place...
...closest Bandy came to success was early one morning in September, when he sneaked into one house while its five occupants slept and flushed them outdoors by spreading a pungent fumigant as a sort of psy-war comment on their personal hygiene. They regained the building. The nearest he came to disaster was the day he charged up in a panel truck and had to retreat under a hail of rocks, bricks and, he claims, a bullet through the side of the truck...
...Step Beyond. Most Asian leaders are sophisticated, well-educated men who seek advice from the sort of people that U.S. Presidents or British Prime Ministers rely upon-Congressmen and Cabinet Ministers, academicians and old friends, and of course wives. Asian leaders often go one step beyond, into the metaphysical, consulting astrologers, mediums, soothsayers and gurus...
...fight itself was a surprise of another sort. Ali, a puffy 238 Ibs. six weeks ago, had forced himself through a crash training program: "Up at five, to bed by ten at night. No lunch, no breakfast, my stomach burnin' with hunger, fightin' temptation, women of all races callin' me on the phone, and the only thing keepin' me from goin' out the window is thinkin' of that short walk to the ring, and all those faces there, lookin' at me and sayin': 'Why it's a miracle! He looks...