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...ironic that the right-wing Union-Leader's attacks against Muskie ended up by helping McGovern more than any other candidate. Union-Leader publisher William Loeb apparently did not take McGovern seriously enough to attack him, and this, combined with Loeb's support of Yorty, served to drain votes away from Muskie and to his several rivals...
...surprising that the Bulldogs, after seeing yet another first-period lead go down the drain last Saturday under a flurry of second-period goals by their opponents, were feeling frustrated and rather vengeful. And nothing has happened over the past week to change the circumstances...
...Muskie's and Nixon's, once characterized Barry Goldwater as "a man who thinks everything will be better in the rear future"; he declared on another occasion: "He who slings mud generally loses ground." Franklin Roosevelt's foes insisted on calling his bright young advisers "the Drain Trust" and referring to some of his programs as ushering in a new "Age of Chiselry." In the 1800s the critics of British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli labeled him England's Jew d'Esprit...
...made for a corner, although any corner, not specifically the one at Currier House. It might resemble a drain pipe or even a forgotten sheet of metal, but it also succeeds in revealing a lot about its environment. Putting it across from the nude sculpture at first seems quite innocent, but contrasts the female representation quite drastically...
...currently contemplated by Saigon and Washington. Consequently, effective Viet Cong control of these areas is a political fact which does not seem likely to change for some while, if indeed it ever does. In a politically reintegrated South Viet Nam, there would probably be a fairly steady population drain from them into more prosperous rural and urban localities. The achievement of such political reintegration clearly will depend, however, upon the recognition and acceptance of Viet Cong control of local government in these areas. It is here that accommodation in the most specific sense of the word is a political necessity...