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...inauspicious start, the event Newsweek called "a rare combination of journalism, history, and live teledrama." There was David Frost speaking to millions of Americans coast-to-coast--or rather, his lips were moving, but no sound was coming out. For a moment we froze, remembering the silence that marked the first Carter-Ford debate last fall, and other gaps in other tapes. But at last the audio portion of our program was restored to us; Frost saying,"...had no control over anything. Richard Nixon and Watergate in a moment...
Hiss, accused of Communist espionage connections in the late '40s and later convicted of perjury (charges he has always denied) introduced the subject himself when he noted Nixon's first television interview with David Frost tonight would air on the anniversary of "the Kent State massacre." He went on during his Law School Forum appearance to link the former President to both the original creation of McCarthyism and also to the survival of similar tactics today. And he said he feared that after the Frost interview there would be a renewal of "a lot, at least qualified, support" for Nixon...
Whatever the intellectual level of Carter's involve-the-people campaign, its success has not shaken many Congressmen. "We admire a virtuoso performance when we see one," said Republican Representative Barber Conable of New York State. "We sure know he can frost a cake. The question is whether he knows how to bake one. When the real crunch comes-energy, trade, cutting the budget-that's when we'll see whether Carter can turn his popularity into votes up here...
Much of the profit is going to Latin America's already café-riche class of exporters, brokers and large plantation owners. But in some countries, coffee is also grown by peasants who farm minuscule plots. Since a frost in 1975 shriveled more than half the coffee trees in Brazil, buyers have been bidding for extra beans at prices that have raised some farmers above the subsistence level for the first time in their lives. In Haiti, where malnutrition is as common as sunshine, the peasants scratch out a hardscrabble living raising coffee in tiny backyard jardins, drying...
...knowledge of poetry can become a useful tool in the game of practical politics, he said--Frost's poems about New Hampshire indicated to him that the state had an independent and unpredictable streak...