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When Administration health officials begin lining up Americans for their flu shots next fall, joked Democratic Senator Warren Magnuson of Washington, "they might have 'em vote at the same time." Magnuson's wisecrack, made during hearings on President Ford's emergency request for $135 million to inoculate all Americans against a possible outbreak of swine influenza (TIME, April 5), was tacit recognition of the emerging controversy surrounding the proposal. Despite final congressional approval and the signing of the measure into law last week, some legislators and doctors are wondering out loud whether the flu program is merely...
...restively eyed their watches and women stared vacantly into their paper cups full of quarters in front of the slots. Sentiment not being a major commodity in Vegas, one man in the Desert Inn muttered when it was over, "Okay, he had his minute. Let's deal 'em...
...that the worst thing you ever heard in your life?" Once the eavesdroppers heard Nixon drunkenly pass along his friend Bebe Rebozo's advice on the Viet Nam War; another time they heard Nixon say of American servicemen killed or wounded in one major battle: "Oh, screw 'em." The secretaries also heard Nixon make what they considered "nasty references about the inferior intelligence of blacks...
...many as an ego trip?the era's leading movie personality discovering that the only subject big enough for him is the era's most significant public event and latching on to it. Hoffman recently went to see the film version of James Whitmore's one-man show Give 'Em Hell, Harry and reports the audience cheered when Harry Truman stepped right up and called Richard Nixon "a lying son-of-a-bitch." He argued on the set that All the President's Men could have used one such uncool and cathartic moment, a moment when all the emotion...
...Suddenly quiet, tired and distant) Yeah. Tell em it don't matter if they can't hear the words. They don't mean anything. I'm not saying anything they don't already know