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...ultimate irony of this tragedy that Nixon's defensive maneuvers will assure his resignation or impeachment. His frantic movement round the nation may build warm emotion among those who still stand behind him. But apparently the televised spectacles anger the disbelievers all the more and turn some of the waverers into enemies. If Nixon were a widely loved or respected figure, say the poll takers, such appearances might evoke sympathy. But in this atmosphere his illogical explanations of events, his nonanswers to critical questions, and the familiar litanies of what he has done for the country tend to deepen...
Writer McConnell jumped out of his taxi and ran up to the gunman. Despite the bloodshed and the gunman's frantic attempts to force his way into the royal limousine, McConnell remembers saying with typical British cool: "Look, old man, these people are friends of mine. Don't be silly, just give me the gun." He moved forward to take the weapon, when suddenly "there was a blinding flash, and I remember thinking, 'Christ, the bastard's shot...
...frantic effort seemed to buoy law-enforcement officials and the Hearst family. Charles Bates, head of the FBI'S task force in the Hearst case, got a "seat-of-the-pants feeling" that Patricia might be freed last Wednesday, on her 20th birthday. Mother Catherine Hearst, who had been gently criticized by Patricia in one message for appearing on TV in somber black clothes, promised that she would don "a pretty dress" for her daughter's return. "They've asked me to make a gesture of sincerity, and that's what we've done," said...
Sarah's own mother died when she was three. Much later her father died. Then her nanny died. Everybody seems to die on Sarah, even her beloved Abyssinian cat, leaving her pretty much alone with a house in London, a house in Scotland and a frantic sense of emptiness that keeps her asking: "What is it that I must do?" In this mood she meets an unnamed psychiatrist and executes a textbook case of transference. When, in less than three years, her analyst dies too, Sarah attempts suicide (as she had done more than once before), then withdraws...
This French obstinacy, reports TIME'S chief European Correspondent William Rademaekers, has little to do with energy: "Rather, the French intransigence reflects a general frustration with France's diminishing role in the world at large, and its frantic efforts to carve out a new sphere of influence." France, Rademaekers reports, is worried that smoother U.S. relations with the Soviet Union presage a deal whereby the superpowers would tacitly divide the world into areas of influence, with the U.S. getting Western Europe and France left unconsulted. Also, France is riled by its lessening power in the Common Market, where...