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...Image-wise he is terribly stiff. I'd tell him to stop walking down the beach in San Clemente in a necktie and vest. My God, doesn't he ever wear a sweatshirt...
...buck up the supply and bring down the price of feed, the Administration clamped a temporary embargo on exports of soybeans and cottonseed. This week the Administration will announce a stiff program of export controls on these feeds, and perhaps corn as well. President Nixon acted after the Commerce Department reported that export commitments for June, July and August were so great that the nation was in danger of running out of the pea-shaped, yellow or green, protein-loaded soybeans before the next harvest begins in September...
...Lazenby -- who promptly confirmed our worst fears. None of this daunted producers Broccoli and Saltzman, who are determined to cash in on the Bond phenomenon. They came up with Roger Moore, who was no big deal as the Saint. So. More is a credible 007, dignified if a little stiff, competent if a bit embarrassed at the inanities placed into his mouth, and, if nothing else, active...
...Colonel Theodore Guy [June 11] is a disgrace to the Air Force, all P.O.W.s and the United States of America. He is not "a stiff-backed professional officer," he is a "lifer" in the true sense. How one man in his right mind can request that eight individuals who suffered much the same hardships as he did be court-martialed is beyond my belief...
Moreover, the Vatican conveniently provided an example of how such authority can operate within the church. While Javierre's report was circulating, the Sacred Congregation for Bishops issued a stern, 250-page directive to the 3,200 bishops of the church. It set forth stiff new standards for a bishop's lifestyle (he should be "internally and externally poor"; his house should be "modest") and cautioned bishops to avoid "authoritarianism" and to respect "liberty of opinion." But it left little room for dissenting opinion from bishops themselves. Their duty is to be "tuned in with the church." They...