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Simplistic to the point of demagoguery, his rhetoric is not so much overtly racist as atavistic. His speeches are a scattershot us-folks compendium of conservative complaints against the Federal Government, both major parties, bums, beatniks and Vietniks, rioters (meaning Negroes), intellectuals and Communists. With bantam-cock posture and frequent billingsgate phrases, he portentously appeals to patriotism, law and order, individual liberty, states' rights and the safety of the past. He is a pugnacious orator-a kind of ham-hock Goldwater-and one of the most effective stump speakers of the 1968 campaign...
...strange-looking aircraft will wheel over Takhli Air Force Base in Thailand early this week, cock their delta-shaped wings forward like alighting eagles, then touch down with needle-nosed insouciance among the warplanes that almost daily raid North Viet Nam. They are the first combat-bound models of the controversial F-111 swing-wing fighter-bomber (originally, the TFX), contracted for six years ago under Robert McNamara to serve both the Air Force and the Navy. Takhli's new planes will be F-111 As, the Air Force model, which will be tested in bombing runs over North...
...performance at Middlebury was outstanding. In the slalom. Which Friedman called "the best single event in Harvard's history," Crimson skiers captured four out of the top ten places. Willy Draper led the Harvard contingent, placing second behind Rick Launsbury of Dartmouth by one-tenth of a second. Mike Cock and Peter and Larry Carter--the other Harvard racers--placed sixth, seventh, and tenth respectively...
...going to cock a snook at British law. The pirates are going to be dealt with...
...have turned my palace into a prison," cock-a-doodled Surrealist Painter Salvador Dali, 63. "I am not allowing myself any kind of distraction. Look at my television set: I have turned it upside down and put a distorting filter in front of it." Could he be working at something? Si, si, nothing less than a vast canvas 15 yards square, "a study of tuna fishing" that will be ready for exhibition in the fall. And when he is not painting, he continued, he keeps busy photographing God. "God invented man and man invented the metric system," Dali explained...