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...post offices. Somewhat ghoulishly, the girls at a Melbourne high school sent an invitation in French to President Pompidou to attend their funerals "á une date uncertaine-cela dépend en vous." Yet another protest to Pompidou came from some 100,000 Peruvian women denouncing the eastward drift of radioactive fallout. The mayor of Hiroshima charged France with "blatant disregard for human dignity." Even Prince Philip of Britain joined in the din, saying that he would gladly carry a banner down the Champs-Elysées if he thought it would help stop the tests...
Much of this drift can be laid to the relative disarray in the White House, which was formerly run with the highhanded authoritarianism of a Prussian drill field by the President's two top aides, H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman...
While Perón will continue maneuvering Argentina's new foreign policy posture, he knows that he cannot move too quickly or too far; the military remains a strong check on any precipitous drift to the left. Thus Cámpora has been instructed to move cautiously...
...higher." Despite this, Driver does not want to see Nixon impeached, or even implicated further. "I'd prefer to see Nixon kept in office, but with his powers reduced by a more effective Congress," he explains. "We'd have 3½ years of lame-duck drift, that...
...below the original offering price, breeding discontent among shareholders and managers. Part of the problem is that going public usually enriches a firm's original partners but not its younger and more energetic members who, because they can no longer become partners themselves, often become embittered and drift away. Though the firms charge as much as $1,000 a day for the services of a partner, costs are rising fast; starting salaries for M.B.A. graduates have, more than doubled since the 1950s. Lately, one of the industry's biggest customers, the Federal Government, has cut spending for consultants...