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...trooper (Clint Walker), outfitted for trapping his man properly: snowmobile, snowshoes and icy determination. ABC's Nakia (Robert Banyon Forster) is a hot-tempered Navajo deputy sheriff in New Mexico, evidently intended to be confused with both the cult-film heroics of Billy Jack and the mystical-religious cant of Kung...
...expenses, that he was a man of modest means whose wife did not wear mink but "a respectable Republican cloth coat," and that yes, there was one gift he was going to keep - a black and white cocker spaniel named Checkers. Though many found "the Checkers speech" full of cant and treacly sentimentality, the flood of favorable telegrams persuaded Eisenhower to execute a smart about-face. "You're my boy," he told Nixon...
...putdowns may be born of an admirable zeal to avoid mouthing hypocrisy and cant. On the other hand, cynicism-or la belle indifference, as Muggeridge would have it-can be a pose too. For the fact implicit in the very act of writing his autobiography is Muggeridge's assumption that the reader will find neither his life nor his account of it a waste of time. And he is right on both counts...
...Nancy Ling Perry, 27, considered perhaps the most important spiritual and doctrinal leader of the group. An English literature major at the University of California at Berkeley, she wrote long S.L.A. diatribes that were heavily tinged with Maoist cant and attacked American society. She took part with other S.L.A. members in the robbery of a San Francisco bank on April 15, when Patty appeared to be an accomplice...
Armchair View. It was still not known whether Patty had actually been won over to the band's vague philosophy, with its Maoist cant and its dedication to deadly terrorism. There was furious debate, despite the 1,200 photographs snapped by the bank's cameras during the five-minute robbery, over whether Patty had willingly participated. In Washington, Attorney General William Saxbe, whose foot-in-mouth disease seems to be becoming increasingly virulent, gratuitously offered his armchair Sherlock Holmes view that the girl was "not a reluctant participant," and labeled all bank robbers, including Patty, "common criminals." Reacting angrily, Hearst...