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Says one Nixon staffer: "The idea is to cool it a little. The idea is to avoid anything that somebody can blame on the Administration, to dissipate some of the discord. But I don't detect any basically different approach that means anything terrifically significant-just a tone where the President would hope his leadership is followed...
...major world power, it came in for surprisingly heavy criticism at the Malta conference. Third World delegates heard ominous colonial overtones in the term trusteeship. Britain's Lord Ritchie-Calder wanted faster action t? keep the arms race out of the seabed. It is now so easy to detect land-based military sites, he said, that the big powers will soon look to the "opaque depths of the seas" for concealment...
...Party. The son of a master carpenter, Heath is a rarity among Tory Prime Ministers: a man who is not a product of one of Britain's select public schools. Heath did, however, attend Oxford's Balliol College, on an organ scholarship. Some acquaintances claim that they can still detect a trace of cockney in his acquired upper-class accent. "His vowels betray him," says a fellow Tory, who recalls that some party members would mimic Heath's peculiar accent behind his back...
...tests are not foolproof. If a specimen shows a hint of quinine, which is often used to cut heroin, the applicant can be refused -but he could have picked it up simply by drinking a gin and tonic, which also contains quinine. Another drawback is that the tests cannot detect heavy users of marijuana because it leaves no noticeable after-trace...
...last year. I've strongly believed that a university should be self-governing-that scholars should not and do not need businessmen, lawyers or professional academic trainers to run their affairs. But as this new government begins to function, and especially in the field of rule enforcement. I detect a tendency for those who do not like a particular result to attack, often with some indignation, the idea of government. I am sure this machinery is imperfect; being less than a year old, it could hardly be otherwise. But as all but a minority of philosophical anarchists will agree...