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...Henry Kissinger, was sent on a fast fact-finding tour of Indochina. While high Washington officials called the situation "abysmal" and "awful," President Nixon went off to ponder at Camp David−usually the prelude to an important announcement. Congressional Democrats fretted that the U.S. was about to bog down in still another quagmire...
...Toward the end of the race, J.R. (Quirk) and I were running together," said Harvard's Marsh Jones, who was Harvard's final scorer in 11th place. "We cut over and ended up going through a bog, and that just broke our momentum. J.R. managed to keep going and caught Steve Hamel and Joe Crowley (both of Northeastern) who had gone...
...Israel, on the other hand, could very well provoke another full-scale war between themselves. Neither seems to want that; even if the Jarring talks get nowhere, both governments are apparently amenable to another round of U.S.-sponsored talks aimed at reopening the Suez Canal. But if peace discussions bog down now, the Middle East's indecisive year of decision could easily be followed by a year of debacle...
Government attorneys opposed Gravel's request on the grounds that it would cause the grand jury investigation to bog down in "a nightmare of litigation" and denied that the questioning would put Gravel's immunity in jeopardy...
Tommy, played with intense virtuosity by Robert Drivas, isn't going anywhere. He grew up in St. Petersburg, Fla., but views that town, and his family, as a deadly bog. He has become an asphalt urchin of Manhattan, where he cunningly cadges an existence off the body of a society that he believes is sick, bloated and dying...