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...reaction to the Laos venture than with the response at home. Five days before the invasion, when the President and half a dozen top advisers met to discuss the go/no-go decision, the domestic impact was uppermost in Nixon's thoughts. The State Department was particularly concerned about rousing dormant peace groups...
...needed it too much. There were obligations to former wives and his six children. His fourth marriage was breaking up. He had taken a couple of debt-defying leaps at moviemaking. He needed to buy time to try and write the big novel that his admirers knew was dormant...
...eschew the high finish such works imply: their materials are plain, crudely put together and ostentatiously frugal. John Duff's Tie Piece, with its floppy swag of old neckties sewn together and swaying on a curved wooden slat, is a very promising exploration of the possibilities that lie dormant in ignored objects. It is rare to see such a fastidious imagination expressing itself through such deliberately mingy means...
...Dormant accounts were pruned from the mailing list: $10,000 saved...
...Model Cities Board in Cambridge contains some fiery people who are not the least bit intimidated by Corcoran's intransigence or Cronin's retorts during the sit-in. The real issue, it seemed, was deeper than the two contracts and the pay raise that had been lying dormant on Corcoran's desk for weeks. To them, it was a question of power. Conflicting interpretations of the CDA enabling legislation asked "Who is going to exercise the authority over Cambridge Model Cities, the Board or the City Manager...