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After Hoover's death last spring, Acting Director L. Patrick Gray decided to abandon the men-only policy. Last week two women were accepted for the FBI's special-agent training program - Susan Lynn Roley, 25, a former Marine Corps lieutenant, and Joanne...
...McGovern so offends most conservatives of both parties that they would likely have voted for Nixon even if Agnew had been dropped; now Nixon will surely lose some moderate voters who cannot stomach Agnew. His only vote-getting advantage may be among the restive blue-collar workers who could abandon their allegiance to the Democrats...
...tough decision to make. Should you reach for a ceasefire at this time on the assumption that Richard Nixon will win his second term in November and thereupon prove much less eager to talk? Or should you just do nothing and gamble that a McGovern Administration will simply abandon the field...
...settlement that would help to re-elect the man who personally hurled his B-52s against your country. Moreover, as everyone acknowledges by now, you gave a lot more than you got at Geneva 18 years ago last week, when you agreed under pressure from the big powers to abandon your war (against the French, then) and allow the division of Viet Nam into North and South...
...boat with a line and went over the side. The water was intensely cold. It was blowing Force 8 [gale winds of up to 40 knots], and the waves were about 12 ft. high. But it had to be done. I had either to repair the boat or abandon the race...