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Then they take the coastal highway north again along the savage shore, turning off at Oregon's Siskiyou National Forest to see the aptly named Rogue River, where the salmon in spring and fall fairly beg to be caught. On they drive, through the state of Washington, into Canada, where they pick up the Alaska highway that takes them to America's true last frontier. Not far from Anchorage, they get out and walk on Portage Glacier. Later they fly to Mount McKinley National Park, where they learn that 100 hardy souls are threatening this season to assault...
...more than six or seven years old) to plead the cause of reconciliation with her mother. A moment later he is marrying a vaguely pleasant young English woman, and a moment after that he is arranging to meet his former wife accidentally in the street so he can beg her to take him back...
...coincidence that the Stones' last album and its leading cut are entitled "It's Only Rock and Roll" (the refrain: "and I like it, like it, yes I do"). The album conveys a humbler, more human appeal. Here, even the Stones "ain't too proud to beg," and the now admittedly mortal Jagger sings "time waits for no one and it won't wait for me". Unable to sustain their Pop myth, they ask (with false modesty) to be accepted just like any other rock and roll band. But no matter what, the old images of them persist, and though...
...within the liberal wing of the neo-isolationist camp, explains that liberals who propose means of cutting the defense budget are for the most part deceiving both the public and themselves. Ravenal feels that proposed cuts based on efficiency, on Pentagon personnel extravagances, or on a thinning-out principle, beg the fundamental question and accomplish virtually nothing. This fundamental question is, of course, what is our defense budget for, or to put it another way, what defines the American national interest and what defines national security. To try to effect defense budget cuts without re-ordering U.S. foreign policy...
That anger has not yet subsided, and it may yet hurt Gerald Ford for having pardoned Nixon so abruptly. When Ford hit Fresno last week in his bid for election, demonstrators carried placards that focused almost exclusively on the pardon. DOES NIXON DRIVE A FORD? asked one. BEG YOUR PARDON, said another. NIXON'S GHOST IN THE WHITE HOUSE, read a third. One Ford aide found some consolation in the timing of the Woodward-Bernstein book. "At least it's coming out now with quite a few months to die down and be forgotten, " he said. That could...