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...headquarters at the Watergate complex (see story, page 20). So far, the C.R.P. promise outruns performance. The President himself has questioned a C.R.P. claim that 125,000 youths are ready to hit the pavement for Nixon, and at a recent breakfast of state chairmen, complaints about the committee flew thick and fast. New York State Republican Chairman Charles Lanigan told of being phoned by a C.R.P. aide who asked him whether the Governor of New York is elected or appointed...
...biblical times, Israel was indeed a good land. It had thick forests in the north, rich farm lands near the Dead Sea, and oases that dotted the desert in the south. An astonishing variety of animals thrived in these regions; archaeologists have unearthed elephant bones in the Jordan Valley, and the prophets wrote knowingly of stealthy bears, the light-footed roe and the wild ass that "snuffed up the wind." But centuries of overgrazing and overcultivation depleted the land. During the reign of the Ottoman Empire, virtually all of Israel's trees were felled to provide fuel for Turkish...
...flashing the toothy Kennedy smile, tossing the thick Kennedy mane and speaking in the metallic Kennedy accent, did Eunice Mary Kennedy Shriver sound the old Kennedy rallying call last week. She candidly admits that her husband Sargent Shriver, the Democratic candidate for Vice President, created a certain coolness among some Kennedy clansmen by staying on to serve in both the Johnson and Nixon Administrations and not sufficiently pitching in to aid Bobby's 1968 campaign. Nothing, however, takes the chill off as quickly as a hotly contested political race for high stakes. "There have been problems," says Eunice...
...troika superimposed on an oval plate of mother-of-pearl to simulate the look of the rays of the setting sun. The weavers from Kazakh S.S.R. have not lost their touch either; the walls of one long corridor are hung with their work--softly-colored ornamental rugs of thick felt...
...unfamiliar places." He talked solemnly of how his wife has "taken our declining fortunes this year much harder than I have. She can't seem to forget that at one point she became an issue.* I'm tough. I've got a hide six layers thick by now. But she is more sensitive to it all, especially to what the press said about me being indecisive, wishy-washy and what not. I'm going to talk to Jane. I can tell you this. If she says no, I won't do it." Interrupted by callers...