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LADY BULLFIGHTER (209 pp.)-Patricia McCormick-Henry Holt...
...LIMITS OF FOREIGN POLICY, by Charles Burton Marshall (Holt; $3), maintains that there cannot be much initiative in foreign policy: it is "necessarily in large part a response to situations . . . beyond our Government's control." Americans, says Marshall, are too fascinated with Davy Crockett's formula, "Be sure you're right, then go ahead." For the purposes of world politics, he writes, the best that can be expected is some such paraphrase as: "Be as sure as you reasonably can of the rightness of your premises. Take care as best you can to see that the conclusions...
ACQUAINTED WITH THE NIGHT (200 pp.) -Heinrlch Böll-Holt...
Knight wanted his Southern California campaign manager, Insurance Executive Howard Ahmanson, named vice chairman of the state central committee-a job that would almost automatically make him state chairman next term. A bloc of Nixon's closest political friends, including Congressmen Pat Hillings, Carl Hinshaw and Joe Holt and Republican Glamour Girl Mildred Younger, came to the convention with other plans. The Nixon group backed Rancher Ray Arbuthnot for the job. They held a press conference, at which Hillings said: "Governor Knight conceded . . . that he is trying to control the Republican Party by pressure and brute force." Knight answered...
...Confidence. In Jefferson City, Tenn., after failing to win the G.O.P. nomination for sheriff, Farmer Briscoe Holt advertised in the Jefferson County Standard: "I want to thank my 43 friends . . . for casting their votes for me, and to the rest . . . I warn you that I am now going armed with a sawed-off shotgun, because a man that has only 43 friends in a county as big as Jefferson is definitely in need of extra protection...