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Nixon was happily making points for 1972 with two important constituencies. Where he really scored, however, was in a crucial confrontation with the Democratic-controlled Congress over financing the 1972 campaign. Eyeball to eyeball, the Democrats did more than blink. They turned away, humiliated...
...Nations came to a halt at John F. Kennedy Airport last week, no one could find a key to the door of the loading platform, and the door had to be taken off its hinges before Peking's men could disembark. Then the loudspeaker system went on the blink just as Deputy Foreign Minister Chiao Kuan-hua uttered the first words of his arrival speech. Chiao manfully went ahead anyway, and the words were duly recorded for television: "The people of the United States are a great people, and there exists a profound friendship between the peoples of China...
...thing makes it really different," says Duncan. "Picasso is squinting with laughter. Usually his eyes are deep chestnut orbs that never blink. I find it refreshing that the man who has transformed so many other figures in art sees himself with humor...
Even an experienced Crimson reader might blink at Wednesday's unsigned editorial about Richard Hyland. Usually the Crimson makes some pretense of marshalling evidence to support opinion. But in this case, just after the writer notes that "of the facts in Dick's (Hyland's) case, we know nothing and do not presume to judge," he asserts that "he (Hyland) is a political prisoner...
...factory foreman who said that "my lead man is a colored boy" was later dismissed. Seale's own prejudices, in fact, affected the proceedings. When Garry questioned a white employee of the Schick Safety Razor Co., for example, Seale scribbled on paper: "His eyes don't blink. MECHANICAL CHAUVINIST." Garry used one of his last challenges to excuse...