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Nodding toward the Capitol chambers, Ehrlichman declared: "You can go over here in the gallery and watch a member totter onto the floor in a condition of at least partial inebriation. I think that is important for the American people to know. And if the only way it can be brought out is through his opponents in a political campaign, then I think that opponent has an affirmative obligation to bring that forward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE HEARINGS: The Ehrlichman Mentality on View | 8/6/1973 | See Source »

This revolutionary formula brought potent results. Saigon withdrew at the first upsurge in NLF militancy, and wide tracts of rural South Vietnam began to implement massive reforms under liberation force leadership. Diem and his handful of allies, trapped in the cities, began to totter...

Author: By Dan Swanson, | Title: NLF Strategy | 5/9/1973 | See Source »

...their notable acting strengths, the sheer likability of Michele Lee and Ken Howard is infectious. She is a warm, supple sprig of femininity; he is a tongue-tied Adam trying to invent a word for love. A playgoer ends up half wishing that the pair could swap their teeter-totter affair for the merry-go-round of marriage. · T.E. Kalem

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Love on Asphalt | 4/2/1973 | See Source »

...members of TIME'S Board of Economists-Otto Eckstein and Robert Nathan-favor placing farm prices under direct federal control. They warn that if food prices during March show anything like the February increase of 23% on an annual basis, the entire structure of Phase II may totter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOOD PRICES: Let Them Eat Fish | 4/10/1972 | See Source »

...Arthur Hailey writes holding-pattern prose. He advances one of his homunculi three-and-a-half pages toward ruin, then puts him in a holding pattern and moves some other character a totter or two toward temptation. But just before the dread jaws of fee-fi-fo-fum snap shut, there is another shift of attention, and the reader must tremble in behalf of a third wretch who has been circling perdition for two chapters, waiting for permission to land...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Round and Round | 10/11/1971 | See Source »

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