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Through it all Henry retained a stoic but visibly worn exterior. Audiences who saw him as the President in Fail Safe or the Secretary of State in Advise and Consent thought his face showed lines of global tension. They were only signs of middle-aged fatherhood. "I knew those two children were going to be rebellious if their old man was suc- cessful at something and they decided to do the same thing," he sighs. "I had to hold my breath sometimes and not let it hurt too much...
...assumptions and expectations which tacitly moderate social behavior. In a society whose opinions are at least partiaily manufactured by the agencies which supposedly chart opinion, the desire to initiate thought has been replaced by a vague but far-reaching impulse to think alike. The voluntary aspect of government by consent has been voluntarily subordinated to the needs and demands of "government by standard of living...
Among other charges, the suit alleges that the Lampoon used the picture without consent and that the picture portrayed the five Uzzis as "infamous." "unclean," "disgraceful." and "disgusting." It also charges the Lampoon with damaging both the good name of the plainfiffs and their standing in the community...
Yale has done nothing illegal, unless refusing to act as a pawn is illegal. The Langer affair arose solely from another in a series of childish, petty disputes between the NCAA and AAU over control of American amateur athletics. Langer, with Yale's full consent, participated in last summer's Maccabiah games as a member of the U. S. basketball team. But basketball, ironical, was the only sport forbidden to NCAA athletes at the Games, since the NCAA wished to deprive the AAU (which organized the basketball team for the Games) of the major portion of its squad and thus...
...Institution. Miss Treyz explained mildly: "The Nixons are middle-American people who don't want to be flash-in-the-pan. They don't want to be jet-setty or way out. Mrs. Nixon must be ladylike." To this end, Clara Treyz advises, with Pat's consent, clothes that tend toward the bland and predictable, styles that hover on that precarious border between classic and passe. Jackets skim the body, neither hiding nor defining; sleeves cap the arm, and skirts end at mid-knee, neither here nor there. Pants do not suit...