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...fact, the papers did not add much to what was already known about President Nixon's and Henry Kissinger's strong pro-Pakistan, anti-Indian attitude. Anderson's charges notwithstanding, he did not catch the Administration in a gross deception. The Pentagon papers, dealing with more distant but more momentous events, showed the Government in a far more questionable light. But Anderson did provide fascinating detail about the Administration's decision-making processes as well as the tone and turn of its thinking...
...teammates, Griese is a respected if somewhat distant leader. No rah-rah man, his most insistent utterance in the huddle is "Let's get going." Says Griese: "I don't say anything. I just call the plays and make them work." And work and work. Though he is a good swivel-hipped scrambler and has one of the quickest releases in the league, 6 ft. 1 in., 190 lb. Griese is running and passing less and enjoying it more. Once he threw as many as 35 passes a game; against Baltimore last week he threw only eight times...
...while feeling that there is something else we should be doing if only we could define it. It is our distrust of ourselves that leads us to look for leadership elsewhere; it's because we are alienated from the people closest to us that leadership must come from a distant figure. Hence, we continue to pick our glorified candidates, mortals upon whom we bestow an imagined "gift of grace...
...Congressman or even the Vice President, it is different. My political critics don't get under my skin at all. I care about the substance, but criticism doesn't bother me personally. Somebody may say 'that s.o.b. wrote this and that,' but the President must remain somewhat distant and not personally involved; if he did not, it would erode his ability to make a decision...
...rein, they can also recognize that the three groups of dots to the right of the star represent atomic diagrams: hydrogen (with one electron circling a central nucleus), carbon (six electrons and a nucleus) and oxygen (eight electrons and a nucleus). The atoms chosen suggest that life on the distant planet is based on a carbohydrate chemistry...