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...opposing the President, the Supreme Court, the minority leader of the Senate, the majority leader of the Senate and the American Bar Association. Who do you think you are?" In reply, Griffin only smiled. In fact, at the end, Griffin even forced Minority Leader Everett Dirksen to abandon his original support of Fortas' nomination. Two weeks ago, when he recognized that Griffin had enlisted a solid majority of Senate Republicans against Fortas, Dirksen abruptly reversed himself...
This is not a time for partisan gamesmanship. U.S.leaders must abandon the bluff that we will not have to make major concessions to win peace in Paris...
...first one to speak out on law and order, about a year and a half ago," he said. "Now they usin' our phrase." That is regrettably true, but Wallace can console himself with the knowledge that no one else has ridden the issue with quite the cowboy abandon that...
...that he has the enemy on the run. He recently told Washington that he thinks the third-wave offensive began late in August and then petered out. The Communists could renew it at any moment, he said, or they could simply stretch out their timetable. They might even abandon the attack altogether. If they do, Abrams thinks that Hanoi might rapidly ask for a cease-fire and begin negotiating in earnest at the Paris talks. But he emphasizes that that is only one of the several courses open to Hanoi...
Keyboard and Diamond. On and off the field, McLain has been tackling all comers with careless abandon ever since he was an eighth-grader in suburban Markham, Ill., and refused to wear the blue uniform tie prescribed by the Roman Catholic sisters at Ascension grade school. As Denny tells it: "Ten days or so before graduation, I decided I wasn't going to wear that goddam blue bow tie any more. So I ripped it off, and Sister said, 'Put that tie back on,' and I said, "I'll be damned if I'll put it on.' Well, she called...