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...height of the Watergate scandal, when Americans were appalled to learn that Richard Nixon had secretly taped conversations in the Oval Office, his defenders liked to argue that Lyndon Johnson and John Kennedy had also taped at least a few White House talks. There were even old rumors that Franklin D. Roosevelt had occasionally asked a stenographer to eavesdrop on meetings...
...most persuasive piece of evidence, however, is Pham himself. Unlike Be or Thanh, Pham is neither wild nor demonstrative. His hair, cut short and jagged around the wound, looks like a washed kitten's. His height is average for a Vietnamese 15-year-old?about 5 ft. 2 in. His build is average. His face is mouth-open flat, without expression, except for the eyes, so brown as to seem black, which cannot exactly be said to have expression either. They are their own depth, the vessels of what they have seen. It is what they have seen that makes...
Experience may help somewhat, but head coach Carole Kleinfelder has pointed out all season that the Crimson has a serious height deficiency. The team didn't get taller in Canada...
Trow's second essay does succeed in getting the reader to shake his head in bewilderment. Yes, it is embarrassing if the height of the social season occurs when Bianca Jagger rides through a Studio 54 party on a white horse led a naked man and woman. And it is ludicrous when geriatric fashion priestess Diana Vreeland comments, "The thing about Bianca is the patrician quality." Trow puts together a good piece of debunking journalism. One only wishes he had not confined it in the thinking of his first essay, and let the sillinessof his subjects speak more for itself...
...Lack of height and inconsistent play continued to plague the women's basketball team as it dropped a pair of games to Monmouth and C.W. Post during the holiday break. The hoopsters extended their losing streak to five as their season mark fell...