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...students are going to college today merely to get a job, why not Katie Gibbs for the ladies and a good plumbing course for the gentlemen? There is money and a need in both categories...
...justification that De Gaulle had twice used for vetoing Britain's earlier application to join the European Economic Community. "Many others also believed that France was prepared to use all means of veto to prevent Great Britain from getting into the Common Market. Well, ladies and gentlemen," said Pompidou, now glancing at Heath, "tonight you see before you two men who are convinced that this is not the case." Then, in a convoluted manner, Pompidou added: "It would be unreasonable to think that an agreement cannot be reached between Britain and the Common Market in the talks beginning...
...American who loves and would preserve our country's free institutions-to his fellow Americans who love and would preserve our country's free institutions" from "the opportunism of the new demagogues and actions of the New Left street gangs," Agnew began his speech by saying, "Ladies and gentlemen: It's good to be back in Jackson." Much was said in the twenty-minute address about "mediamorphosis" and "the national Democrats and their media-academic allies," and the notion that "this Administration enter[ed] office pledged and determined to heal the wounds inflicted upon the national spirit during the first...
Again from the epigraph: "Plump-face men will mumble academic phrases... gentlemen of the cloth will speak unctuously of values and standards." One can easily picture the set of Hoover's bulldog jowls and imagine his inflection, particularly on the word "peace," when he suggested that King's behavior was hardly befitting the standards expected of a Nobel Prize winner. Equally conceivable is the overwhelming sense of dislocation and betrayal that must have hit King like the hot and hard wind of a desert sand storm. The camera and the microphone, which had been his two biggest weapons from...
Ford's domestic affairs were a shambles from the beginning. In personal crises he tended to react "like a jelly at bay." He harbored a romantic belief in the restfulness of free love, along with a notion of himself as the last of the true 18th century Tory gentlemen, devoted to simplicity, probity and order, but mercilessly chivvied by the mean-spirited modern world...