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...presidential campaign, Dole learned that he was to have nothing to do with the election of Nixon; the job was to be done by a new and oddly named group called the Committee for the Re-Election of the President. Dole got revenge, of sorts, by coining the acronym CREEP for the organization that was to become so infamous...
...total recall of menus (at CIA headquarters dessert is austere "melon and cookies"; the G Street Club offers "a perfect, soft Brie"). But his prose, often better than serviceable, is sometimes very cutting indeed. (The political career of a Democratic Vice President is summed up as "a lackluster, snail creep to seniority.") By the time the reader gets to President No. 3, Richard Monckton, he is meant to accept Ehrlichman's jungle view of life in the nation's capital. U.S. Presidents generally, one is encouraged to assume, should be placed only a few points to the right...
...MBTA, CREEP, UNCLE--to these initials-which-have-become words a new set of initials has been added: OTRS...
Dave Bixby, number two man for the varsity, caught a bad crab around the 800 meter mark, which allowed Penn to creep back to within a half seat of the Crimson. But the boat regrouped, and quickly retook command of the situation. Twenty strokes later, Bixby's oar decided that once was not enough, as it dove back in the traditionally horrendous Severn for a second helping--this time, a boat-stopping crab...
...economic recovery continued to accelerate as first-quarter statistics showed an annual increase of 7.5% in the gross national product. Almost as heartening, the annual inflation rate declined to 3.7%, and although it is expected to creep up to perhaps 6%, it is still a far cry from the 9.7% rate reached in 1974. Detroit was forecasting a 10.5 million car year, the second best ever. Profits were up, retail sales were high, and even the long depressed housing industry was on the rise again. Unemployment remained at an unacceptable 7.5%, but this was a promising drop from...