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Exit the Foreigners. But how long could this semblance of order last? Tension mounted once again and trigger fingers were itching-this time at Temblos, a village not far from Kyrenia, where Greeks last week moved some of their heavy artillery around the mountains to threaten Turkish fighters who had moved in with guns and men. In a cloud on the heights far above, St. Hilarion's castle was occupied by Turkish irregulars with shotguns and pistols, defying the Greeks to attempt an attack...
Nelson Rockefeller avowed to the convention Platform Committee that the party cannot expect to win if it seeks to serve "the narrow interests of a minority within a minority"-that is, the Goldwater interests. Henry Cabot Lodge said: "We must never countenance such a thing as a trigger-happy foreign policy which would negate everything we stand for and destroy everything we hope for-including life itself. Many times in foreign relations the thing to do is not to be forthright." Michigan's Governor George Romney asked that the G.O.P. "unequivocally repudiate extremism of the right and the left...
...There are thousands of supporters of Senator Goldwater who are not extremists, who don't belong to the John Birch Society, who are "responsible" Republicans, who are for the betterment of our country, and who are not trigger-happy imbeciles-contrary to what the "superior" Republicans and Democrats emit from their opinionated and twisted heads and tongues...
...seemed to stay on the defensive, endlessly trying to answer his enemies' charges that he wanted to sell TVA for a dollar, that he would take the U.S. out of the United Nations, that he would abolish social security, that he had an itchy finger on the nuclear trigger...
...mollycoddler, Manager Mauch always has a train ticket ready for a slacker. Starting pitchers know that it is no use arguing when he wants a replacement from the bullpen. He simply marches to the mound and holds out his hand for the ball. His hair-trigger temper is legendary; he has been suspended three times for jawing with umpires, and wise players stay out of his way on a losing afternoon. One day last year, infuriated by a narrow loss to Houston, he stalked into the clubhouse, found the Phillies feasting gaily on a buffet of barbecued spareribs-and flipped...