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...many students and a pariah at the White House. Nixon did not object to the criticism, but to the fact that it was leaked to the press even before it arrived in the Oval Office. Says one White House aide: "The President thought it was an effort to embarrass him personally, and he never got over it. He never trusted the man after that...
...NASA would never see people go hungry so that we could buy another gadget for space," von Braun said, "but a few billion dollars more a year would not embarrass us. We can help solve many of the earth's problems such as weather prediction and the location of natural resources," he added...
...American-owned companies have continued to pump oil. The most serious disruption occurred last May, when a bulldozer accidentally severed the Trans-Arabian Pipeline (Tapline) in Syria, cutting off 480,000 bbl. a day. Syria has refused to allow repairs, presumably in order to embarrass the conservative regime in Saudi Arabia, which is losing $100,000 each day that the pipeline remains closed. Now tankers must carry the bulk of oil produced in the Arabian Gulf around the Cape of Good Hope to Europe. The consequent shortage of ships has caused a tripling of charter rates, making it much more...
...even bigger computer in its "domestic war room" which is fed FBI intelligence reports in raw form. (One might here ask to what extent such information is obtained from wiretaps.) In addition Secret Service inputs data concerning threats to the President, information on demonstrations, abusive statements, and plans to embarrass government officials. Weekly computerized intelligence reports give a city-by-city assessment on the potential for civil disorder, indicating what marches, rallies, or meetings are occurring and the organizations or individuals sponsoring them, as well as the city's disturbance history. The books are read by the Interdivisional Information Unit...
...early days, Fitzgerald drank out of disappointment and poverty. Later, "success was the occasion for drinking." Whatever its origins, Fitzgerald's alcoholism rarely seemed to embarrass him, though he often felt guilty over the suffering it caused his wife Zelda. Drinking, in fact, had always attracted him: as a boy, he pretended drunkenness; as an adult, he introduced himself as "F. Scott Fitzgerald, the well-known alcoholic." He claimed that liquor "heightened feelings," and he declined psychiatric treatment because he thought he would not write as well if he stopped drinking...