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...Connor, 56, seemed strong last winter because of his proven ability to win elections in New York City but has since slipped back into the pack. "There is a time to fish," he said cryptically, "and a time to cut bait. There is a time to zig and a time...
Diversified Attack. There was little doubt about who had won that exchange. Heath has seized on other issues only to see them fade either because of voter indifference or because of Wilson's refusal to take the bait by arguing back. As a folksy gimmick, Heath reduced his attack on Wilson's economic policies to an arithmetic formula: 9-5-1. The nine stands for Britain's soaring 9% wage increases in the past year despite Labor's pledge to hold down wages. The five stands for the 5% hike in prices in spite of Wilson...
...mixes a very mean metaphor. "One of the attributes of an administrator is his ability to stick his neck out, to open his mouth and say something, to decide what side of the fence he is on and to take a stand there, to fish or cut bait, to put up or shut up," she says. She is Ruth M. Adams, 51, dean of Douglass College, the women's division of New Jersey's Rutgers University, and soon she will take a stand at Massachusetts' Wellesley College as successor to departing President Margaret Clapp (who will...
...report his two daughters missing in August 1965. In Tucson, a boom town with an unusually high proportion of transient residents, more than 50 runaway minors are reported each month. Propelled by the same aimless itch, unrestrained by permissive parents, hundreds of teenagers haunt the Speedway. They were easy bait for Smitty, who was older, more sophisticated and, as they said admiringly, "different." His foster parents, owners of a nursing home, had given him $300 a month since he was 16, and furnished him with his own cottage, which his mother dutifully cleaned after all-night orgies. "With Smitty," confided...
Washington did not rise to the bait. "1969 is quite a long way off," remarked one U.S. diplomat, aware that many things could alter France's attitude between now and then-including the departure of Charles de Gaulle. In any case, plans have been made to cope with outright ouster. Already the day-to-day supply of the U.S. Seventh Army in Germany is based not on French ports but on Antwerp, Rotterdam and Hamburg. And though it would cost at least $700 million, the U.S. could move most of its facilities in France to the Low Countries...