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...half-hour speech, which preceded the question-and-answer period, Sole frequently referred to the threat of Soviet power in South Africa, and said he believes the Soviets are primarily interested in the mineral resources of South Africa...
...SEEM to notice, or to care, that the new Nixon talks exactly like the old model--that the speech in Kentucky, for instance, rattled more sabres in a half-hour than the "get-tough" advisers to President Carter have managed to shake up in four months of trying. Nixon's Cold-War rhetoric, his simplistic approach to the problems of minorities, his bloody-axe technique of dealing with essential social services, make up the bewildering philosophy of a man rather remarkably frozen solid to the 1952 Republican platform. Even more bewildering, however, is that he has been able to mask...
...arrival of summer. While Roman candles and rockets cannonaded across Versailles's famed formal gardens, one visitor secreted a time bomb in a cupboard in the chateau's south wing. The blast, which went off some time around 2 a.m., was verified by the police one half-hour later when a squad car made a routine check of the palace...
...blood pressure was so low after three months of torture, complicated by pneumonia, that parts of him lost all feeling when he remained still more than ten minutes. At night, instead of sleeping he used to lie in a feverish trance, shifting to stay alive, timing himself by the half-hour chimes of a distant clock. "When Laird came home we couldn't sleep in the same bed at first," remembers his wife Virginia, a frail, dark-blue-eyed wife who waited. "He shifted a quarter turn every five to ten minutes...
...Three Wives of David Wheeler (NBC). A man and his gorgeous ex-wife run a photographic business that employs another exwife, a young model. The half-hour comedy depicts how he and his current wife deal with his former spouses...