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...roaming through central Santiago shouting "?Silencio! ?Silencio!" In a clever ploy, the government managed to put ample supplies of meat, which has been scarce for several months, in many Santiago shops. Not even residents of wealthier suburbs -who normally would have supported the day of silence-could resist such bait. They turned out to shop, often in the city's shantytowns, which were better supplied with food than middle-class neighborhoods because Allende's strongest backers are the poor...
...fray will not be easy for an old gut-fighter, however much reformed. When Nixon hears the bell, his first impulse is to come out punching. One skeptical liberal Republican expects the campaign to be "very presidential in the beginning, but pretty soon there will be lots of Democratic bait. Nixon will rise to it." But so far, so gentle. As an illustration of the style now in favor, neither the President nor his press secretary responded to Ramsey Clark's broadcast from Hanoi accusing the U.S. of bombing the dikes (see story, page 16). The counterattack was delegated...
...whole relationship with the audience, over which he has less control than any comparable idol in rock history; Elvis Presley, who can still tune the fans up and down like a technician twisting a dial, is the opposite. Jagger's act is to put himself out like bait and flick away just as the jaws are about to close and the audience comes breaking ravenously over the stage. No other singer alive has transformed arrogance into such a sexual turn-on: it is the essence of performance, of mask wearing and play, and the spectacle has a curiously private...
...with such consistent accuracy that the opposing center is almost always forced to move out to try to stop him. That clears the lane to the basket for lay-ups and rebounds by the rest of the Knicks. If the opposing center hangs back and does not take the bait, Lucas can usually make him reconsider by bombing the hoop with a mortar-like barrage...
Meanwhile, the column sent to relieve An Loc remained stuck on Highway 13. The reason: the terrain was open and flat, ideal for bombing enemy troops and for taking up a defensive position should the North Vietnamese choose to attack. The NVA declined the bait, and only harassed the column while the troops' morale and supplies dwindled. Minh, who has built up a reputation as the most successful of Saigon's generals at avoiding a set battle, kept insisting that he was on the verge of "a great victory." His apparent reasoning: since...