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...meet any burden of proof. Students do end up making significant financial contribution to the city through the high rents they must pay if they live off-campus and through sales taxes and other municipal charges and levies. Furthermore, Cambridge's large student population has been an influential economic bait, drawing a number of retail merchants and other business to the area...
...telegram designed to aggravate the already tricky situation in which the President had put himself. Wired Wallace: "The conflicts between your recent statements opposing the busing of schoolchildren and the action of federal departments directly under your control have left our people in a dilemma." Nixon took the bait: he put out word through Press Secretary Ron Ziegler that federal officials who supported busing programs too strenuously would find themselves in new jobs in -or even outside of-the Government...
...eight months in the House, she has made that presence felt with a characteristic indifference to protocol, notably the tacit understanding that a freshman Congressman ranks slightly above a page boy. It is already part of Capitol Hill mythology that when the courtly House doorkeeper, Mississippian William ("Fish Bait") Miller, asked her not to wear one of her trademark broadbrim hats onto the House floor, she briskly replied, "Go f -yourself." Actually, Fish Bait says, the exchange was jocular; they are "big buddies...
This time, the human flesh proves poor bait; Gimbel and his crew ply beneath three oceans without success. But even the failures are captivating. Divers hitch rides on sea turtles; monumental schools of twitching fish gather and separate at every sudden plane of light. The water is like heavy blue air in which natural law is suspended. Time seems liquid, depth and risk meaningless-until Gimbel surfaces too quickly and doubles over with the bends. Above sea level, the film itself wears gills, fins and horns. It is amateurish and even a bit silly, with crises boyishly re-enacted...
...bombings had done it; the confrontations with cracker officials had done it; but the press had done most of it." The press had dangled a bait before King that sheerly on the basis of his background was irresistible. At an early age, King had been inoculated with that particular turn of mind that yields easily to the notion of personal destiny. A person who had had a less sophisticated philosophical exposure might have couched this notion into convinced mutterings about the will of God or the whims of Lady Luck-7, 11, or the Second Coming. King, however, spoke...