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...will eventually agree on a compromise version that will present President Nixon with a firm order from Congress to stop the fighting once and for all. Significantly, even hitherto loyal supporters of the President's war policy joined in the Senate committee vote. Rumbled New Hampshire Republican Norris Cotton: "As far as I am concerned, I want to get the hell...
...main business of the mission will be, as Bruce put it, to normalize relations. Apart from that, it will oversee American trade with China, which is expected to reach $500 million this year, largely due to the sale of cotton, grain, five Boeing 707s, and $9,000,000 worth of RCA communications satellite equipment. Much of the serious political business, however, is expected to be handled in Washington by Presidential Aide Henry Kissinger and Chinese Representative to the U.S. Huang Chen, who is expected to arrive by mid-June...
...table is his ability to stay loose and observe his opponents keenly. No matter what the stakes, he keeps up an amiable chatter with other players. "Some of these guys play the games real uptight," he says; "it's so quiet you could hear an ant pee on cotton. But Ah like to shake 'em up, put a rattlesnake in their pocket and ask 'em for a match...
...week and pledged "full federal support for their recovery and rebuilding efforts." Even the eldest Mississippians could not remember such biblical rainfalls (57 in. since last October). Said one: "Everything that could be flooded has been flooded." Perhaps 15% to 20% of the region's cotton crop will have to be written off, along with a large portion of the soybean harvest. An Illinois agricultural official said flood water had devastated 45,000 acres of the winter wheat crop...
Shadow of a Doubt. One of the films Hitchcock thinks his best, with Joseph Cotton playing a psychotic murderer hiding in a small town behind his mild-mannered exterior. Technically, this is one of Hitchcock's subtlest films. This lack of ostentation is what makes it so effective...