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Nixon gave Scott a pair of presidential cuff links (Scott already has some) and a presidential pin for the Senator's secretary. The Senator returned to his office glowing...
...tier. He thinks that he lacks the "graphic eye" necessary for good TV news pieces. Words and music are something else. He enjoys playing Bach on his electronic organ (favorite piece: Invention No. 8 in F). His love of sound is reflected in the off-the-cuff poetry he began writing while in the Army (among his lyrical credits: 25 published songs, including Nancy Wilson's Black Is Beautiful...
Tough, quiet-spoken and by no means an unattractive figure, Keeler nevertheless gives the impression of a spirit deliberately blunted, an intellect deliberately narrowed in order to achieve his goal. He makes it across the finish line-a retirement banquet at which he receives diamond-and-emerald cuff links patterned after the Phillips trademark-only to pay, at last, the price for his unquestioning belief that what was good for the corporation was good for him and, indeed, for everybody else. Keeler is now under investigation for authorizing an illegal corporate donation to the Committee for the Re-Election...
...record as a capricious dictator-in addition to expelling 42,000 noncitizen Asians from Uganda, he has crippled the country's economy in the 32 months since his successful coup-Big Daddy's brand of verbal buckshot might be considered amusing. As it is, his off-the-cuff oratory mostly reflects his instability and ignorance. A sampling of the kind of rhetoric that has prompted President Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia to call Amin "a madman" and "a buffoon...
Crossed lines like this denote uncomplementary transactions, and bode trouble. For example, the Adult-to-Adult question about the cuff links might be answered with a sharp "Where you left them," a reproof that comes from the wife's Parent and is addressed to what she sees as the inept Child in her husband's personality...