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...sporty blue Toyota or flashy Lamborghini, usually escorted by a caravan of scowling secret policemen. One of the few pleasures of office was his acceptance recently of the Chinese Nationalist Order of the Propitious Clouds, Great Special Cordon grade, bestowed as part of Taiwan's diplomatic offensive to garner anti-Peking votes in the United Nations. As one sign of his restricted power, Jean-Claude reportedly told some youths that Afro haircuts were all right with him-then had to retract the statement in a newspaper announcement and call for everyone to adopt the prescribed crew...
NICHOLS (NBC). A $40,000-a-week salary and a $1,000,000 TV-movie guarantee lured James Garner (Maverick) back to the comedy-western business. Cast as a sheriff in need of vocational guidance, he emotes with accustomed facetiousness, his eyes flecked with fear and with understandable lust for the bosomy barmaid (Margot Kidder) who is the town's tease. The second episode took a clumsy swipe at U.S. jingoism and even Viet Nam (a 1914 cavalry officer notes: "Sometimes to save a town, you have to destroy it"). But there is a loco charm and potential intelligence...
...fact that the committee found faculty members "willing to see eventual student voting participation," it chose-wisely perhaps-to recommend a more limited step. This does not mean the committee's consideration of the voting role was half-hearted, though. In fact, the committee went so far as to garner, through the faculty secretary, an opinion on the issue from the University's legal standby. Ropes and Gray...
...scenario along these lines has Laird leaving the re-elected Administration in 1973 to run against Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson. Nelson is more vulnerable than William Proxmire, Wisconsin's other Senator. More important, Nelson's seat comes up for grabs in 1974, time enough for Laird to garner sufficient national exposure for a run at the presidency...
Harvard fell behind quickly, 11-0, as the strongest part of the Princeton line-up went to work. Lee Klepper pinned 1d8-pounder Bob Ecob at 3:39. and Sleve Garner (126) decisioned Jerry Kahrilas...