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...taped interview was over, the finger jabbed once again and Romney railed, "You took advantage of me; I don't like that one bit." Later, he indicated that the whole line of questioning bothered him. Another student, after challenging Romney on a statement at a cocktail party was taken aback by the governor's sharp reply. "The Romney finger" is well known among his Michigan opponents...
...Caught aback, the National Education Association made an emergency survey, pegged the nationwide shortage at 72,500 teachers, all but 6,500 of them needed in elementary schools. The figure seems conservative, since New York alone reported a statewide deficiency of 12,000 certified teachers, Texas 10,300, Illinois and Michigan 5,000 each. Missouri has almost three times as many vacancies as last year...
...Washington. In February 1968, Erhard proposes to East Germany's Walter Ulbricht that joint plans be drafted for the formation of a German confederation, no longer insisting on free all-German elections or the tearing down of the Communist Wall as preconditions to the talks. Ulbricht is taken aback, but accepts when Erhard promises to renounce nuclear armament and maintain East Germany's socialist economy. Ulbricht wins congratulations from Pope Paul VI but is overthrown by a hard-lining Communist clique when public opinion in East Germany runs rampantly in advance of the formal negotiations and forces...
...They would just get out there in the jungle and be trampled by elephants and eaten by the lions." Undiscouraged, the Rastas showed up at the airport waving placards reading "Hail to the Lord Anointed" and chanting "Selassie is Christ" and "Welcome to our God and King." Somewhat taken aback, Selassie was quickly bundled into a waiting car and rushed to a reception, where he observed politely that he had found the welcoming demonstration "beyond my expectations...
...continuing debate over Viet Nam and China, there was, as usual, no lack of imprecation. Oregon's Democratic Senator Wayne Morse attacked President Johnson for conducting "an illegal and immoral war," even took Republicans aback by shouting: "The American people would be much better off if Barry Goldwater had been elected President!" In Berkeley, before...