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...great joke, and although Merle Haggard continued to write and sing country songs, he lost the brief attention of the wider audience...
Both Connally and Goldwater agreed that Watergate's repercussions were wider than the G.O.P. Wrote the Arizona Senator: "The reverberations of scandal and corruption will shoot through both major parties and create real trouble for incumbents." A Gallup poll found that while voter identification with the Republican Party has dropped four points since the 1972 election, to 24%, those who said they were Democrats has stayed at 43%. The only increase has been among those who consider themselves members of neither party...
...Then there is what seems to be the more practical plan of M.I.T. Aerospace Engineer Yao Tzi Li, who proposed ringing the tower's base with buried concrete pads. Connected to the tower by a network of trusses, the pads would in theory distribute the load over a wider area...
With the butterfly, however, knot making is a bit more difficult. The material is bulkier, wider, more difficult to pull through a knot. Many stores offer illustrated instructions on the proper method-which is not much different from tying a shoelace or anything else tied in a bow shape. Still, retailers say, younger men wearing bows for the first time prefer the already-tied clip...
...surveyed the landscape. I found friends, stars, sports events, politics, demonstrations, disappointment and violence and love. I started by trying to be too close, using a telephoto lens and trying to fill the frame with details. As the years passed I stepped back more and more and went to wider lenses, and the images reflected an intellectual...