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...personal styles. A proper Bostonian, Cox, 61, is reserved, with flashes of arrogance; Jaworski, 68, is an expansive Texan, much warmer and more approachable. Jaworski soon showed that he is as devoted to hard work as Cox, plunging into long meetings with lawyers and investigators, obviously anxious to dispel any suspicions that he had taken the job to call off the hounds. "Press on," Jaworski said repeatedly. "Make your own judgments...
...nothing solid had been known until La Moneda was actually stormed. In any case, the U.S. had not moved to alert Allende on the ground that to do so would have been interfering in the internal affairs of another nation. The explanation was obviously not strong enough to dispel the suspicion that the U.S. had played some part in engineering the Chilean President's overthrow...
...years ago caused some unions to grumble that other unions-and even nonunion men-were outdistancing them in pay gains. Washington officials fear, however, that food-price inflation from now on will weigh more heavily in unionists' minds. Last week's news did nothing to dispel that fear. The Government reported that the consumer food-price index for July jumped .8%, even though prices supposedly were frozen, and Treasury Secretary George Shultz warned that the August increase in the Wholesale Price Index will be "astounding." Even in advance of settling with their unions, auto-and steelmakers are asking...
...sweeping two-volume narrative of human progress. Outline is a kind of bible of social engineering. Written in a single year of disciplined enthusiasm, it starts with cavemen and ends by pointing toward a New Jerusalem achieved through knowledge and World Federalism-a vision he constantly conjured up to dispel his chronic pessimism. A colleague recalls Wells during this period emerging from his study after a day's writing and chanting "Here we come over the High Pamirs-and mix with the Aryan peoples...
They signed all the papers and talked about all the subjects they were supposed to talk about and then they soared across the United States on smiles. But all of this could not dispel the doubts of Watergate, and in subtle ways even emphasized those doubts. Brezhnev had been briefed on Watergate. His heightened exuberance, his emphasis on personal rapport, were signals that he was trying to give his beleaguered host a bit of a boost in a tough time and, of course, protect the Brezhnev investment in Richard Nixon...