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Relentless Quest. Through the bulk of the trial scenes, a tension is built up that has probably not been felt in the Broadway theater since The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial. Drake, to his considerable dismay, is picked to defend Millington, but he goes about it with a cool, indefatigable, relentless quest for the truth. Mrs. Hasseltine, it turns out, has indeed been attacked, but not by Millington. As Drake zeroes in on the real culprit, he also unearths evidence that the much-vaunted "honor" of the regiment is something of a mockery...
Although the Yugoslav crowds were somewhat less ebullient than were the Rumanians who mobbed Nixon on his visit to Bucharest last year, they responded warmly whenever he got out of his car to mingle with them. To the dismay of his security guards, Nixon repeatedly followed the same handshaking tactics in Rome and Madrid. The largest crowds of the tour cheered Nixon and Franco, before Dick and Pat flew to London for a relatively quiet visit with Heath and Queen Elizabeth. Nixon's brief stay included a working session devoted largely to Middle East affairs, in which top British...
...seeker's letter points up one of the nation's most perplexing problems as it de-emphasizes the role of defense spending. Deep cutbacks in military and space expenditures are throwing onto the labor market a corps of highly educated and experienced men and women. To their dismay, these individuals are learning that being overskilled-or too narrowly skilled-can be almost as bad as being undereducated or underskilled. The elite jobless, many of them middle-aged men with families, must try to convince skeptical employers that their mastery of such subjects as missile design, spy-satellite control...
...like and Tina Turner concert in the Stadium, State police swarmed around the gates and mounted police occupied every corner. As soon as Tina Turner finished her set, she was escorted to her trailer by a phalanx of blue-helmeted troopers. The crowd howled in dismay. Purse-snatching and muggings increased...
...like a group of boys starting out on an adventure at the beginning of a vacation," one notes. Every day he sets off down the Mississippi with Tom, Huck and Jim. In this world the cardinal sin is to betray a friend. About the only time Plimpton displays real dismay is when he talks of a fellow writer who revealed a confidence in print: "I think that's just awful, reprehensible...