Word: withdrawnness
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...less statesmanlike down to the final hours. Humphrey concentrated almost entirely on Nixon's ambivalence on the major issues and on Agnew's gaffes. The Nixon organization aired a commercial that interspersed shots of a grinning Humphrey among scenes depicting poverty, war and riots. The commercial was withdrawn from network use after only one showing, but later it was shown by at least one local station...
Into the Woodwork. The most dramatic indicator was an intelligence report that between 40,000 and 60,000 North Vietnamese troops have withdrawn from South Viet Nam, many of them slipping into Cambodia and Laos from the northern provinces and from such metropolitan areas as Saigon. "They just seem to have disappeared into the woodwork," said a U.S. officer...
...some officials argue, the U.S. might adopt the same attitude in evaluating the signs of reduced military activity in the South. The North Vietnamese pullback could merely reflect the impact of recent allied military successes, but the fact remains that Hanoi has never before withdrawn troops on so large a scale. Why not, ask some officials, interpret this move as a signal that Hanoi is attempting to offer reciprocity for a bombing pause? If this is not a signal, they ask further, what...
...Harvard Undergraduate Council recommended last week that credit be withdrawn from ROTC courses. The HUC resolution will probably be brought up before the Faculty at the November meeting under new business...
...some paintings failed to meet their reserve price (at which the owner prefers to keep possession rather than sell). Claude Monet's loving yet sharp-focused portrait of his wife, Madame Camille Monet, was pegged at $800,000. When bidding stopped at $500,000, the portrait was automatically withdrawn. Said Parke-Bernet's Peter Wilson: "There are surprises in every sale." He had little to regret; the two-day auction of 79 impressionist paintings had brought an alltime record...