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...slash his own mother's 'wrists in order to win, and take pleasure doing it." He enjoys a lurid private life: cadres of call girls in New York balanced by orgies on the Coast. He hangs out at Mercurio's restaurant in Manhattan, wears Italian marble cuff links carved with the network initials and terrorizes the television industry. But BCA boasts smarter savages than Bingham. He is booted out, thanks to the connivance of, among others, a homosexual programming chief in Hollywood...
...have even kissed my first baby," he says wryly. Like Julie, he has developed a knack for graciously self-effacing banter. When a group of elderly Rhode Islanders recently presented him with a pair of cuff links, he grinned: "Mr. Nixon is getting a little sick of my using his cuff links all the time, so thanks very much...
...needs a good cuff in the chops for acting less like reporters and more like provocateurs. They spend less time telling it like it was than telling it like they thought it was. It was like the coverage of an important sports event where all the air time was spent interviewing the players, confabulating with the coaches, getting "I think" impressions from the fans, punditizing with the umpires. To hell with that! Let's see the GAME...
...poured from office buildings. Signs screamed VIVA NIXON and DUMP HUMP-NIXON'S THE ONE. People jumped through police lines to shake the candidate's hand. While the excitement hardly matched a Robert Kennedy happening, Nixon, like Kennedy before him, suffered a scratched wrist and lost a cuff link to eager grasps...
Nixon's running mate had apparently not got the word. At first, Spiro Agnew faulted the police for "overreacting." Then, in an intemperate off-the-cuff tirade before the Young Republicans in York, Pa., he did an about-face and said that the whole business, together with campus revolts, had been largely inspired by Communists and "fellow travelers." The Marylander confided that he had heard "through channels" that demonstrators in Chicago had inserted razor blades in their shoes to kick the cops. All that the "hippies and yippies" can do, he said, is "lay down in a park...