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...Nixons live in a spick & span, two-story white brick house at Spring Valley, a Washington suburb. Nixon no longer does the dishes, and is generally bad at fixing things around the house, but (after his strict Navy training) always neatly hangs up his clothes. Pat Nixon is a good and enthusiastic campaigner, and .so is the rest of the family (although Julie has lately taken a dislike to photographers). During Nixon's senatorial campaign, when all the Nixons were on TV, Julie thoughtfully picked her tiny nose in full view of the TV camera. Said her father: "Julie...
...laces in the straitjacket. In each new district, buildings were requisitioned for military and secret police headquarters. The Soviet-sponsored newspaper Taegliche Rundschau was made the official government paper, thereby becoming East Germany's Izvestia. The East German SED (Communist) Party paper Neues Deutschland became its Pravda. Strict loyalty checks got under way among staffs of both newspapers...
...same thing happened last year, when Abbott budgeted for a surplus of $30 million and finished the year with nearly $1 billion to spare. Chief reasons for both surpluses: the Canadian business boom and the government's avoidance of direct price and wage controls (insisting, until recently, on strict credit controls...
...bare mountainside building in the Salem* district of the Indian state of Madras, 35 Indian ascetics live and pray together. In the tradition of the Indian sanyasis (holy men), they wear coarse cotton robes dyed a bright saffron. At mealtimes they eat a strict vegetarian diet of tapioca, rice and lentils. When they chant their prayers, they sit cross-legged on the floor. They wear no shoes or sandals, for Indian custom forbids any footgear inside a holy place...
Macartney's father, a strict Scots Covenanter minister, taught his children* a firm, old-fashioned set of religious beliefs. Young Clarence learned the fine points of oratory from an equally good source. As a University of Wisconsin undergraduate, he used to go down to the elder Bob La Toilette's office in the Madison courthouse to rehearse his debating speeches. The training helped make him one of the ablest preachers in his church. In 1924, William Jennings Bryan, an orator himself, proposed him for the one-year term as Moderator of the Presbyterian Church, U.S.A...