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...Governor Rockefeller," wrote the Daily News in a copyrighted story, "probably will not be a candidate for re-election next year and may resign before completing his present term, top state Republican leaders have been advised." The News listed three reasons for "Rockefeller's virtually hardened decision to bow out of the governorship, a post long regarded as a strategic necessity to his expected try for the next Republican presidential nomination." The reasons...
...great Sir Laurence on-camera. But when someone asked about a scar on her knee, she proved that her ad libs remained as freewheeling as ever. "Oh, that," said Sarah. "The Archduke of Austria gave me a ride on his motorcycle, and I fell off. He didn't bow and scrape and click, but he said he was the archduke. And he wanted me to come home with him and meet Mother Archduchess...
...here, and Carmine De Sapio was driving it." Then he turned to the young collegian award winners and barked out a command: "Students out there, stand by! You could be in the next Cabinet! If you'd come from Harvard, you'd be in tomorrow!" With a bow to the honor guest at the head table, the "quarterback of the Hyannisport All-Stars," Hope quipped: "Listen, touch football is not a sissy sport. Up there in Hyannisport, roughing the passer is a federal rap." Finally he had some news of a fellow Californian: "Nixon couldn...
...project dear to the heart of his U.S. chief, Air Force General Lauris Norstad. Snapped Sir Hugh: "I don't believe we should extend this nuclear weapon. Don't let every Tom, Dick and Harry go mucking about with the bloody thing." Then, in a sort of bow to the boss, he came to an abrupt halt: "I am speaking here as Hugh Stockwell. I may be Mr. Hugh Stockwell after this...
...rankling fraudulence which had to be my mind's habit: that pretence to lead the national uprising of another race." But the destruction of one myth only created a more complex modern myth-that of the flawed, wounded hero on the order of Philoctetes, whose invincible bow was necessary for the winning of Troy, but whose wound so stank that men shrank from him in horror and disgust...