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...cherished quote to come out of New Hampshire was Eugene McCarthy's epitaph for George Romney, the Michigan governor whose highly-rated candidacy had fallen apart after he admitted being "brainwashed" by the Pentagon on Vietnam. Did McCarthy think the August 1967 remark had destroyed Romney's chances? "Well...er no, not really," replied the Senator. "Anyway, I think in that case a light rinse would have been sufficient.'" (Romney "kept on campaigning in the same way a dead man's fingernails keep growing," wrote Timothy Crouse '68 in The Boys on the Bus--but withdrew shortly before New Hampshire...
Ellen Lissik (Linda Lavin) works in an engine factory. She is divorced, with a ne'er-do-well ex-husband who runs at the mention of child support for their twelve-year-old daughter. Like the women she works with, she does not look much beyond a good time Saturday night. But she does know one thing: she cannot make do on the $4.30 an hour she is now being paid...
...whiz! Why don't we save ourselves a year of tiresome rhetoric and a lot of money too, and anoint by acclamation another of the Royal Family Kennedy as King-er, President? With Camelot II and its fun and games established in the White House we will see how well charisma can run this country. While standing in awe of the new White House occupants, we will forget our troubles of inflation, unemployment, energy shortage and high medical costs...
Volck' er i za' tion, n. 1: a process of money management whereby interest rates are kept high at a time of deepening recession; 2: a reliance on tight monetary policy in order to protect the value of the dollar abroad and quell inflation at home...
...partly taken over by Soviet pilots in Antonov-12s. There have been reports that some of the pilots supplement their income by smuggling Laotian gold into Viet Nam. Observed a cynical military attaché: "Without the Russians it would be almost impossible to move around the greater Vietnamese Empire, er, excuse me, the Greater Indochina Co-Prosperity Sphere...