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...temper. He lost his temper." The Republican National Committee, as part of its research on Muskie, has an affidavit from a Maine telephone operator swearing that during a Muskie vacation a few years ago, a telephone repairman had to go up to the Senator's cottage three times to fix a phone that had been ripped off the wall...
...effect? Nathaniel Samuels, U.S. Deputy Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, is rumored to be suggesting that the surtax might not be removed until after the 1972 election. In that case, the job of monetary reform might be a long one. Few nations would be willing to fix their currencies permanently at high rates relative to the dollar while the tax remained in effect, because once it was taken off, the structure of exchange rates would be upset again...
They also released government documents which, according to Minh's supporters, showed how the election was being rigged. The main item was a 17-page memo to province chiefs; among other things, it told how to fix ballot cards to enable Thieu partisans to vote twice and how to discourage Thieu opponents by finding "a scar"-Vietnamese parlance for a past crime or anything else that might make a man vulnerable to blackmail...
...alternating music from the Marine band, at one end of the field, and the Marine drum and bugle corps, at the other end, the marching companies move in swiftly, line up and fix silver bayonets on their M-1 rifles. They march in quick 30-inch steps, keeping their feet within two inches of the ground in a motion they call "slide and glide." Momentarily, the parade deck is cast into darkness. High on the ramparts of the east barracks, seven red-coated trumpeters, bathed in a floodlight, blow a fanfare. The musicians of the drum and bugle corps take...
Mutrux and Cinematographer William Fraker capture the feeling: the neon and chromium, the chili-dog stands, the freeways, the drive-in stereo stores and the supermarkets. Nearly all of the characters are played by junkies, not actors. They relive their lives for a camera that observes compassionately as each fix brings them that much closer to self-destruction. Mutrux views his characters as victims, if rather romantic ones. That attitude lends his film a distinct but unsatisfactory ambiguity...