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...have a particularly difficult life because of the nature of the Viet Nam War. Where, in another kind of conflict, their men would be heroes, now antiwar groups in their own land denounce the cause for which the men were fighting in language like that used by the enemy. Crank telephone calls interrupt whatever tranquillity they can find. President Nixon has pronounced himself pleased with their patience, but their patience is wearing thin. Increasingly, some of the wives complain that the U.S. Government is not doing enough. Some of them have been driven to espouse the offer put forward...
...publicity that accompanies a public figure often is followed by as he said, "300 crank letters," which ask for time consuming commitments that draw him away from his work. For this reason he didn't even want to look at the article when shown to him at his lab yesterday...
...Crank Up. The fact that the Administration had so much at stake had already deprived the nomination's opponents of the backing of the two top Republican leaders, Minority Leader Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania and Minority Whip Robert Griffin of Michigan, who had been instrumental in defeating Clement Haynsworth. Without that leadership, the few remaining G.O.P. liberals had to scramble among themselves to find an anti-Carswell standardbearer. The result was the emergence of Brooke, the Senate's lone black, as an effective leader of the liberal bloc...
After it was over, he came charging into the office and said, 'Crank up; we're going...
...ever saw." To a degree, the town meeting represents an older communal spirit not unlike that of hippie settlements. Now the technology that the communards seek to escape is beginning to close in on towns like Mount Vernon. Until a couple of years ago, Mount Vernon was served by crank telephones and calls routed by two elderly operators who knew everyone in town. One townsman recalls: "They knew where everybody was and used to transfer calls if you were visiting somebody. Now we just have this dial stuff that gets only a lot of noise in the receiver...