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Allen, who has moved Boeing into the leading place among U.S. planemakers during his 21 years as president, will have to do his biggest selling job on Lyndon Johnson, who displayed his ambivalence about the SST in his handling of the announcement of the design winners. Washington had been awash with rumors that the announcement was imminent and that Boeing had won, but Acting Press Secretary Robert Fleming, with the President in Austin, declared that he was "confident" that no announcement was about to be made...
...feast for the Cotters is one chicken in the pot, brought to the boil in saltless water and garnished with some dreadful cabbage; the local preoccupations are football pools, the union and the Labor Party, which replaced (but not satisfactorily) the chapel. The family Bible of the Cotter tribe, awash with tea and sympathetic misery, seems to be those old socialist classics-Robert Tressell's The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Lenin...
SUMMER FUN (ABC. 8-8:30 p.m.). Keenan Wynn captains an incredible ship of fools awash on the Caribbean during the early 1800s in "The Pirates of Flounder...
...Defense") were strewn about the floor near a second puddle of blood. Bloodstains smeared the front of a record album on a bed. A calendar (Sept. 8: "Hallelujah. Training completed") lay crumpled on a night table. A blood-drenched sneaker remained where it had fallen. The upstairs bath was awash with blood. Downstairs, strips of bed sheet, clumsily tied with reef knots and granny knots, lay about the living-room floor, and the soft cushions bore ugly dark stains...
Prime Minister Harold Wilson had barely got Britain's seven-week-old shipping strike settled when he found himself last week awash in a new sea of crises. The trouble began when Minister of Technology Frank Cousins huffed into 10 Downing Street one morning carrying his resignation. It was the first major defection from Wilson's leadership, and it concerned Wilson's prices-and-incomes bill, which had just been made public. Limiting wage increases to 3½% annually and levying fines of ? 500 on trade-union leaders who break the guideline, the bill naturally irks many...