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Wild Boar. Halfway through his journey last week, Agnew was looking, listening and, in his effort to please, practicing what might be called Rotarian diplomacy. After a formal Nepalese dinner of guinea fowl and wild boar, he spoke in glowing exaggeration about the significance of the traditional namaste greeting. The act of placing hands together in prayerlike position, observed Agnew, "may well do more to ease the tension of the world today than all the diplomatic discussions." In talks with King Mahendra, Agnew said that President Nixon "understands" Nepal's friendship with China, but cautioned that the prospects...
...pick-up, I've never seen one like that before" and we stopped at Colonel Sander's so he could get a chicken dinner, he came out and said, "Jesus, what a place, I've never seen a place like that before" and when the rain turned to snow halfway up the canyon, he said, "Jesus, someone's shaking out a feather bed upstairs, don't you think?" and then he asked me where I went to school and when I got out he said, "Jesus, you were great to have along and whatever you are out of school...
...Thieu obviously agrees with this derisive view. In the past year, his relations with both houses of the legislature have grown increasingly bitter and suspicious. Last week, in a vote that brought the fight into the open and sowed the seeds of future battles, the lower house yielded halfway-but no more-to a campaign of unprecedented presidential pressure. By separate majority votes, it approved a report that accused three members of cooperating with the Communists. At the same time, it ignored another of Thieu's demands by refusing to cancel the three Deputies' parliamentary immunity to criminal...
...something worth thinking about. Observes the Rev. Charles Brackbill Jr. of United Presbyterian's Division of Mass Media: "We are selling an option. What we're saying is, 'Consider God-consider God as an alternative.' " The churches are convinced that at least a few halfway believers are once again doing just that...
...hardcourtmen got off to a shaky start, throwing the ball away and failing to get back on defense. But with the game tied 32-32 halfway through the first half, Harvard caught fire and built a 20-point lead in the next seven minutes...