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SENATOR ROBERT DOLE, 49, suffers because of the position he held when scandal erupted: chairman of the Republican National Committee. He also joined the chorus of protest against early press exposes of Watergate. But during the campaign he fought many a gallant losing battle with the Committee for the Re-Election of the President; in fact it was he who dubbed it CREEP. For his interference, he was shoved out of important campaign work and dumped from his National Committee office after the election...
...race Eliot led right from the start and kept up the pace throughout the entire 1000 meters. Adams House made a gallant bid to overhaul Eliot, coming from a last place start to finish in a disputed second with Mather. No one is exactly sure who did come in number two and even fourth place Kirkland contends that they would have finished second if the race hadn't been shortened...
...Under no circumstances would I put down in any way the gallant and courageous returned prisoners [March 19]. The contrast, however, between our happy and apparently healthy P.O.W.s, and the "grotesque sculptures of scarred flesh and gnarled limbs" who have been "politically re-educated" by Mr. Thieu, might make one more prayer of thanksgiving seem in order: "Dear God, thank you for allowing me to be captured by the enemy, and not by the friends I was sent to fight...
...Pacino's virtuosity rests upon a profound insight: that Richard is primarily an actor himself. Deprived of the gift of normal humanity, the crippled killer role-plays with savage, self-mocking ingenuity at the parts other men confidently assume: seductive lover, charismatic leader, gallant warrior. In Pacino's conception, Richard's ultimate triumph is not to become King but to put on the whole world. His ultimate tragedy is that he cannot deceive himself. But with what energy - with what charm, with what venom - does Pacino stretch Richard toward his illusions, like a Pirandello character trying...
...most people "love their Congressmen, but not Congress." It is easy to like a legislator for his personal style and policy views, Fenno notes, but difficult to admire a Congress because it is expected to solve national problems-and it rarely can. Moreover, many Congressmen "portray themselves as the gallant fighters against the manifest evils of Congress; they run for Congress by running against Congress." As Congress thus loses prestige, its effectiveness can decline in a self-perpetuating spiral of criticism...