Word: cordiality
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...Richard Nixon, it was not a particularly comforting week. Two powerful groups long on generally friendly terms with him turned on his policies-in one case with deliberate rudeness, in the other with homiletic eloquence. Organized labor has been as cordial to Nixon as to any Republican President in memory, backing him particularly on the war and on law-and-order. But Nixon took the calculated risk of appearing before the biennial convention of the AFL-CIO in Bal Harbour, Fla., a day after it had instructed the labor members of the Pay Board not to cooperate in forming Phase...
Eventually, Phillips was rewarded with a choice assignment: duty in Harlem, where the payoffs are the biggest in the city. He soon was on cordial terms with gamblers known as Joe Cuba, Ted Cigar, the Gimp, the Gout and Spanish Raymond. He recalled his first meeting with a gambler called Eggy. "He walked over to the car and he says, 'Are you the new men?' We said, 'Yes, we are.' He says, 'You get $20 a day. Is that all right? We take care of the men who were here before you, we take care...
...Quite Evasive. Throughout his tour, Lindsay was received by sizable crowds. His speech before the California League of Cities attracted 1,900 people, several hundred more than Hubert Humphrey had drawn the previous day. Phoenix, in the heart of Goldwater country, also accorded Lindsay a cordial welcome. In San Francisco, he found a thriving "Lindsay for President" group and a welcome endorsement from a former longtime National Democratic Committeewoman, Mrs. Rudel Gatov. "I'll sup port him and be part of his campaign," Mrs. Gatov said, "if he decides...
Grotesque Charge. Bundy traveled down to Princeton for a meeting with Falk, some would say to allay his objections. Bundy insists, however, that the meeting was simply "to get to know someone I was interested in." Although the meeting was cordial, Falk and his supporters did not give up their opposition. Says Bundy of Viet Nam and his troubled appointment: "Obviously the returns in Viet Nam are tragic-tragic at home and tragic in Viet Nam. There has been tragic bloodshed-no worse than Korea, but there it is. I think it certainly can be argued that...
Though the American Orthodox Church maintains cordial ties with Perry's denomination, it has a "high church" tone markedly distinct from the evangelical character of the Metropolitan Community churches. Until three years ago, Father Robert M. Clement, 46, the New York denomination's mustachioed, long-haired founder, was a priest in the Polish National Catholic