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...large desk, with his visitors ranged in front of it. "He was anxious to put us at ease," said Scott later, "because I'm sure he knew we weren't." Nixon reminisced about the Eisenhower years, and all chatted as the trio waited for him to broach the momentous topic. "What I need to do," Nixon finally began, "is to get your appraisal of the floor. I have a decision to make. I've got maybe 15 in the Senate and ten in the House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LAST WEEK: THE UNMAKING OF THE PRESIDENT | 8/19/1974 | See Source »

...Broach a barrel of oysters, call for sack-be merry, mighty merry! To read Samuel Pepys again in this new edition is a celebration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pepys Lives! | 12/18/1972 | See Source »

Another hesitation about the provate carters is their oft-mentioned, but unproven, connection with the Mafia. When DeLury is called on to broach that subject, he demurs by saying, "That's a very dangerous question for me to answer." In fact, Tuesday night he let slip for the first time that he has had a bodyguard, supplied by the city, ever since he received a death threat last October. "The FBI calls and says I must have a bodyguard, and I have. It's that simple," he said...

Author: By Robert Decherd, | Title: Steering a Tight Ship in a Sinking City | 3/25/1972 | See Source »

Wickenden said last night that he would "broach the subject (of the 'anti-recruiting' proposal)" with Charles P. Whitlock, acting dean of the College...

Author: By Daniel Swanson, | Title: Picketers Confront OGCP | 2/16/1972 | See Source »

Haunting Face. Word of the religious riot ran through Maharashtra with predictable results. In Jalgaon, 200 miles away, Hindus forced an entire Moslem wedding party into a building and set it afire; 19 Moslems, including small children, died. In the town of Broach, 300 people rioted after a pedicab knocked down an eight-year-old boy. In Bhiwandi, Hindus chased six Moslem moneylenders into a thicket, set it afire and hacked the men to death as they fled the flames...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India: Fire and Blood Again | 5/25/1970 | See Source »

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