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This Watergate flavor will be around a long time. Nixon has so few favorable areas left, but one of them is foreign relations. He is running out of countries to visit, but he could get involved in making the U.N. truly effective. Pat is another asset. He could send her off on a trip around the country with a new cause-for example, equal opportunity for women, or for black women...
...suburbs-goes even farther. It is an immense "new town intown" designed for 120,000 residents. Located on 600 acres of abandoned railyards between the Loop and the Chicago River, the town will be complete with shops, recreational facilities and, most important, good schools. The planners see another potential asset in the river, which, with a cleanup, can be made as attractive as the lakefront...
...think I will rehabilitate myself ... and I hope to be able to live a useful life." Impressed, Ervin reminded Magruder of a poem reading: "Each night I burn the records of the day. At sunrise every soul is born again." And he told Magruder that he had "the greatest asset that any man can have-you have a wife who stands behind you in the shadows where the sun shines...
Humphrey had subjected McGovern to the kinds of attacks he would have to expect when he went before voters of both parties. McGovern's strong liberal stand on the issues was no longer the asset it had been in the early primaries. Now he was on the defensive...
There was also the question of whether any single person is rich and daring enough to own a horse worth as much as Secretariat. "My brother's an economist," says Mrs. Tweedy, "and it made him nervous to think of owning an asset worth $6,000,000 that depended on a single heart beat." So the deal was made. Meadow Stable can race Secretariat until Nov. 15, keeping any money he earns. After that he goes to a breeding farm in Kentucky to rest up from the racing wars and prepare for the mares he will court next spring...