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...That's right, sir. You can go 400 miles on a tank of water." I looked at him again and I said, "So tell me what happens if a car runs into me? Into my door, for example. Won't I get cooked? Boiled? Burned to a crisp...
...convinced. "Any bird go flitting around in the scrub here with nothing on," snorted one bushman, "would bloody soon burn off what's bobbing, I can tip you." Added Sheep Farmer Harvey Gurney: "The water holes are all dried up. She'd be burned to a crisp...
...spirited support. His wife Mary was in a particularly candid mood. Asked rather prematurely what kind of First Lady she would make, Mary replied: "I'm too lazy to be an Eleanor Roosevelt. I'm not sure everybody is made to have causes." In the clear, crisp air of Eau Claire, Mary told the crowd: "John doesn't like to breathe air he can't see." Not too amused, Lindsay reminded her that he had improved the air in New York City by 30%. "Oh, I'm sorry, dear," she replied. "I forgot...
When Nixon called all of his top advisers to a climactic conference at Camp David, Connally clearly was second-in-command. Nixon laid out the problem in a crisp, 20-minute talk; Connally detailed the steps. Action would have to be fast. A dramatic impact was deliberately sought. "Much of the problem was psychological; much of the solution had to be psychological," Connally recalled. So Nixon went on TV on Aug. 15 to announce the historic policy shift to controls. He followed with the outlines of his longer-lasting Phase II machinery three months
...crisp November afternoon, Kent State University resembles any other thriving Midwestern campus. Hirsute young men and their long-haired girl friends, identically dressed in blue jeans and peacoats, stroll hand in hand across a snow-covered reach of lawn. Their path is interrupted by bulldozed mud trails, wire fences and spools of cable, the debris of new campus construction...