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...general has doffed his bemedaled uniform for casual mufti in order to soften his military image, has abandoned droning prepared speeches for off-the-cuff talks and has even begun to enjoy the political stump. Recently, he articulately plugged Indonesia's "New Order" on a visit to the island of Sulawesi, where he wowed the natives not only by giving pithy explanations of what his government is trying to do but by donning a sarong and the peaked local headdress. Later this month, he goes off to Bali on a similar speechmaking tour...
WHEN I knew George during the summer the rich people had all left Madrid for the beaches so his little illegal business in land speculation was sucked dry. He was eating on the cuff and his duena was dunning him for the rent, but he would terrorize her with his deep voice and dark skin. He had only been in Spain two months and his Spanish wasn't up to quarrelling...
Thus the FDA director was in the contradictory position of approving-if only off the cuff-a drug that has not had thorough scientific inspection. He had previously complained that American families waste money on unneeded vitamin pills and had roundly condemned children's candy cigarettes-which he thinks might lead them eventually to the real thing. Last week, though he later qualified his remarks enough to note the legal and possible long-term hazards of marijuana, Goddard's basic equation of pot and liquor still stood. Immediate outrage followed. Among the most incensed was Dr. Robert...
...enact his tax bill and cut expenditures. "I know it is not a popular thing for a President to do-to ask anyone for a penny out of a dollar to pay for a war that is not popular," Johnson told savings-and-loan officials in an off-the-cuff talk. "If I were concerned only with my own popularity or my own poll, that wouldn't be the way I would go about it-to suggest higher taxes or more wars. But you have to do what is responsible, and you have to do what is right...
...history may have lapsed, but his sense of political timing was unusually keen. His drive for the G.O.P. presidential nomination had received little attention during the summer until the Detroit riots and his differences with the President put him back in the headlines. Last week's off-the-cuff remarks landed on television screens and front pages across the nation. He followed up with a speech urging U.S. flexibility toward China, in the hope that Peking will reach the point where it will "deserve and desire" United Nations membership...