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...however, the old twosome is getting back together. Fulbright recently sent Rogers a warm personal letter, suggesting a new spirit of reconciliation. Rogers agreed by return mail. When the Secretary of State testified before the Foreign Relations Committee last week, the hatchet, if not buried, was clearly put aside. After congratulating both Nixon and Rogers on ending the war, Fulbright suggested that the session represented "a new spirit of sweetness and light." Golf, anyone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Fore! for Reconciliation | 3/5/1973 | See Source »

...hardly expected from The Crimson anything better than Dun Swanson's crude hatchet job on my book, Behind The Berlin Wall. But minimal standards of journalistic honesty might at least have led Swanson to mention some of the book's major themes and findings, so the reader could judge for himself whether, as he argues, the Left should refrain from citicizing regimes like the East German one too loudly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LIFE IN A TOTALITARIAN SOCIETY | 3/1/1973 | See Source »

...itself. But The Crimson of June, 1934, was inestimably better than its namesake of a few months before. Ingram's miracle had made it the kind of paper the Journal people had wanted in the first place, and the 1948 History tells us that the two groups buried the hatchet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Enters the 30s and the Depressions | 1/24/1973 | See Source »

...theory that he is a Mass Hall hardliner. He is seen in some quarters as a cool manipulator, a wily maximizer who tirelessly and relentlessly spends his time ferreting out student disrupters. Let Derek Bok make the high-minded speeches--Daniel Steiner is behind him wielding the hatchet...

Author: By Daniel Swanson, | Title: Dan Steiner: New Man With the Bullhorn | 10/13/1972 | See Source »

...President Charles Colson. The presidential aides and other senior staffers meet at 8:15 every morning and plot the day's strategy. White House watchers are intrigued by the prominence of Colson, 40, once the lightly regarded head of the "department of dirty tricks." While remaining the hatchet man who keeps errant staffers in line and dreams up projects to embarrass the opposition, Colson also now mixes in such delicate matters as the grain sale to the Soviet Union. He has a sign on his wall that reads: " 'I hope the Nixon people do to George McGovern what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAMPAIGN : The Coronation of King Richard | 8/28/1972 | See Source »

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