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...them loyal to the party, and we had seven or eight different interpretations of his banquet talk. Agnew was really shaken. For McCall, it was a session of acute personal embarrassment. But if the Vice President learns to deal with the issues in 1972 rather than to flay individuals, McCall will think it a fair trade." McCall's judgment was that Agnew "took it very well, with maturity and poise, the bitter and the sweet." However, Agnew gave no indication that he planned to change tactics...
...Spiro Agnew Show, which seemed at first to be a one-shot special, may have gone weekly. Exactly seven days after the Vice President telecast his Des Moines attack on TV newscasters and commentators, he went on the air again, this time to flay the New York Times and the Washington Post Co. Unlike the premiere, the second installment, from George Wallace's own Montgomery, Ala., did not get network coverage. But it was telecast, live or on tape, in some cities, including New York and Washington (where it was carried by the Post's WTOP...
...product, that huge swaths of the Bluegrass State might be mistaken for the moon. Both boon and bane, strip mining gouges out a third of Ken tucky's coal production, which last year reached 93 million tons worth some $500 million. The strip miners use bull dozers to flay great strips off the sur face and get at the veins beneath. This scars Appalachia's hills and flatlands with ugly detritus called overburden or spoil. As the spoil shifts and slides, the hills resound to the awful rumble of landslides shuddering down the slopes...
George Axelrod has directed the cast to act with the fury of lions loosed on early Christians. Yet even when the players flay their roles, enough humor prevails to permit Girl to join Barefoot in the Park, The Odd Couple and Sweet Charity as another hit, making Neil Simon the first playwright since Avery Hopwood in 1920 to have four Broadway shows running at the same time...
...brains or backbone than a bran doll"), he angrily determined to "put matters right." He was well equipped for it. At 48, Allenby was a huge and powerful man with a chest like the hump of Africa and a head like Gibraltar, not to mention a tongue that could flay a rhinoceros. When "the Bull" saw red, battle-hardened officers sometimes fainted dead away...