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...First Lady, she has presided over White House teas and receptions with quiet charm. But Mrs. Nixon has avoided the clamor of a public person-except for her notably successful trip to earthquake-devastated Peru in June 1970. All this, however, is apparently coming to an end. In January, Mrs. Nixon will travel to the inauguration of William R. Tolbert Jr. as Liberia's President. It will be the first time an American First Lady has visited the African continent, or served as the U.S. representative at the inauguration of a foreign chief executive. After the ceremonies in Liberia...
...general, Bios believes parents should set limits, affirm their personal values, deny the "clamor for grown-up status," and refuse to be intimidated by charges of authoritarianism. That is bound to cause family tensions, he says, but antagonism between parent and adolescent is normal and even necessary. Without conflict, Bios believes, there is no growth...
...write their memoirs. Refreshed, the Maestro fills in the yawning hours before dinner with a dozen portraits. The omelette palpitates under his fork, unable to believe its luck. It, too, will be converted into a Picasso. A green, nocturnal silence reigns in the garden, broken only by the muffled clamor of Greek shipping millionaires stuffing $1,000 bills through the letter box in the hope that Picasso will draw on one of them. But the day is over...
...from that stand. For one thing, a court test of the ban on wage raises negotiated prior to the presidential freeze?the provision that unions dislike most?might well take longer than 90 days. A more embarrassing reason for the retreat was the absence, so far, of any significant clamor against the freeze on the part of rank-and-file union members...
...years the families were largely ignored in the clamor of a widening war. Then, with the decision to withdraw from Indochina, release of the prisoners became a major issue. After an unsuccessful rescue raid on a deserted prison camp at Son Tay last November, the families closed ranks behind the Nixon Administration's insistence that freeing the P.O.W.s was the necessary first item for negotiating a peace in Southeast Asia. But since then, disenchantment and frustration have somewhat eroded the President's support among P.O.W. wives and parents. Following Hanoi's latest proposal, which seemingly offers release...