Word: brushoffs
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...induction was postponed, but only until Feb. 1. Grimly, Gary Wilson began a patient-and unrewarding-series of visits to the draft board office. "I'd go down there, wait three hours to see someone," he said, "and I'd get nowhere. I was getting the brushoff...
...slight, stooped electrical engineer, Shapp, 53, parlayed an investment of $500 into the Jerrold Corp., a multi-million-dollar electronics firm. He had hankered for political office for years, only to be given the polite brushoff by politicians more interested in his cash than his candidacy. Denied the senatorial nomination in 1964, Shapp decided that 1966 was the year to go it alone...
...said half jokingly to an interviewer, "so it must always be in the ring." Among other top G.O.P. presidential possibilities, Michigan's Governor George Romney received a polite reception from the Young Republicans in Washington, and Pennsylvania's Governor William Scranton got a brusque brushoff from Goldwater. Recently Scranton asked Barry to make no attempt to win convention delegates from Pennsylvania. Scranton explained that he wants his state's delegation to go to the San Francisco convention uncommitted. But Goldwater declined to cooperate. Said he: "I'm not going to interfere with anyone in Pennsylvania...
...against the French, and was the first Communist nation to recognize Algerian independence. So the least that Peking's Premier Chou En-lai expected in Algiers last week was a well-organized demonstration of brotherly love. Instead, he got a chaotic reception that at times resembled a brotherly brushoff...
...touchdown. College scholarship offers poured in from 30 schools. According to Roger's mother, Ohio State's Woody Hayes "must have spent a fortune in telephone calls." But the one college Roger himself yearned to attend fumbled the ball. Notre Dame gave him the polite brushoff, and when the Navy recruiters persisted with their "What you can do for your country" line, Roger signed up for Annapolis. "I decided I wanted to do something else in life besides play football," he says...