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...unlike many towns in the U.S. similarly engaged in tilting against giants for their very lives, the people of Brumley Gap have at least got their resistance going early in the proceedings. Most of them cannot imagine defeat. Says Cletis Leonard, a tall, rawboned woman with her silver hair drawn back in a bun: "I sold three quilts at that auction down at the Coon Club last October. Made $200. Maybe I'll do even better next time around." Skinny but indomitable at 95, Floyd ("Unk") Hayter, whose wife Bess thinks the town's big mistake...
Despite the tension at the beginning, both sides characterized the five hours of private talks as friendly, courteous and businesslike. The first bilateral session was held in the Spanish colonial Palacio Nacional, but it was just general and polite. The two Presidents got down to specifics the next day at Los Pinos, Lopez Portillo's official residence. Carter said he was ready to reopen negotiations over natural gas purchases in formal government-to-government bargaining sessions. Said LÓpez Portillo: "Let's get on with it." As for buying more oil from Mexico, Carter did not press...
Colson's Law. If you've got them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.−Poster alleged to have hung in the office of former Nixon Aide Chuck Colson...
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...situation got even more complicated, however. Wyatt said he was sure the student-faculty committee had formulated this policy. "I don't remember who said it," Wyatt said about a meeting he had with the committee in December, "but some one mentioned that the University as an institution was no longer being asked to boycott a product...