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...used to have trouble in school," Norm says. "I'd hook classes, run around, smoke herb and all that. I didn't known how to approach people with, you know, a big background. Every time I talked to them I came out with a loud-speaking voice." Now Norm says, "I know how to deal with it because people who know--they talk...
...weapon: an automated dialer and recorded-message player that can make up to 1,000 calls a day. Because the device blankets entire telephone exchanges-automatically dialing all the numbers, both listed and unlisted-no one can escape the unwanted pitches. And taking the phone off the hook activates a "howler" device of slowly rising intensity...
...that Carter had lost credibility because of his "mulish support of Lance in the face of the overwhelming evidence that his Budget Director was, at the very least, a wheeler-dealer. Had Carter cut his losses early on by easing Lance out, he would have gotten himself off the hook." From Boston, Senior Correspondent James Bell noted: "A wide variety of politicians, businessmen and academicians only want to know when Lance is going and why he hasn't gone already. You can almost hear Carter's support dripping away like a faucet in the night...
...attention, nonetheless, because Lasky is correct in some of his major contentions. However, it is deplored by many students of the presidency because it gives major emphasis to minor episodes of wrongdoing, repeats unproved charges without offering fresh evidence and, in the end, lets Nixon almost totally off the hook...
...days, if there was an abortion, the man responsible for the pregnancy was expected to pay the bill. How come men got off the hook...