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...know," Rhodes said. "I think he got the message." He telephoned his friend George Bush, the G.O.P. national chairman, to ask: "You got any good news?" Quipped Bush: "Yes, it's 12:17 and nobody's been indicted." The hardcore Nixonites in the House have been furious at Rhodes' reticence the past few weeks. "Why aren't you defending the President?" demanded one. Rhodes replied that impeachment was not a partisan matter and that he would decide the question in his best judgment as a lawyer, not as a Republican. "I hope," he continued, "that...
Michael Levin's Tybalt lacks sufficient fire until he gets to the duel with Romeo, which is fast, furious and fanatical. A cheer for Patrick Crean, who has coached every trace of timidity and amateurism out of all the fencers...
...Furious Bankers. Many commercial bankers are furious. The savings-bank payment order, says Rex J. Morthland, president of the American Bankers Association, "is a blatant violation of the spirit and the letter of the historic distinction between savings and checking accounts." The ABA last week asked the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. to let commercial banks also pay 5¼% interest on savings...
...pace that left aides and accompanying newsmen limp with exhaustion. Days began with early breakfasts in the King David suite he shared with Nancy Kissinger. Those few quiet moments were soon followed by conferences, cables covering a range of other State Department business, fast glimpses at news summaries and furious airport runs. He communicated with President Nixon as often as five times a day, even though this was clearly the Secretary's show. Kissinger tends to eat irregularly and compulsively under pressure. At the end of the trip, he was visibly stouter...
...went off to sleep, leaving the document for Kissinger. He awakened them at 8 a.m., raging that the draft was much too tough. "You don't understand," he said. "I want to meet their position." All through that critical week Kissinger kept up a furious pace. Said one American official: "Henry was rushing things too much; it was getting too sloppy...