Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Tricia's husband Edward Cox arrived at the White House from New York to join his wife, Mrs. Nixon, Julie and David Eisenhower in the family quarters. That gathering, too, signaled the fast-approaching end of the Nixon presidency. Rumors of resignation caused banner headlines and dominated news broadcasts. The stock market rallied again, with the Dow Jones industrials rising almost 24 points. Crowds gathered along the fences surrounding the White House; mostly somber and curious, they had the quiet air of a death watch. In the House of Representatives, the gravelly voice of William ("Fish Bait") Miller startled...
...every commentator wrote that Nixon was politically washed up. He moved to Manhattan, which seemed to strip him of a power base but actually propelled him into the heady world of big law and big money. Said Nixon: "Any person tends to vegetate unless he is moving on a fast track...
...orderly. We are going to be engaging in a good deal of ego boosting about what fine people we are. At the same time, beneath the surface, there is a bit of Watergate in all of us. Postwar America has been an era of "get where you can as fast as you can." While it is not corruption in the financial sense, it is an excessive personal ambition. Thus I think that the whole Watergate experience has been good in that we are troubled, especially if it means that we will not be cocky and self-confident. Yet there remains...
...Peter Fonda, the old Easy Rider himself, who has slipped back into the driver's seat. This time around, he has four wheels instead of two and plays a heist artist with racing ambitions instead of a romantic outlaw biker. Fonda has dreams of glory on the fast track. To get himself a stake in the big time, he knocks over a large super market in a small California town...
Bobby Womack, besides having the world's best album covers, is a pretty good fast-paced soul singer and guitarist. He's not especially adventurous--most of his repertoire is tried-and-true middle of the road soft rock--but he does an exciting job with what he sings. Womack also has a terrific soul revue, including a huge band and three female backup singers, one of whom is sometimes Pam Grier, Rosie's sister. At the Sugar Shack all weekend...