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...critics of this Administration admit that there is a turning away from the Federal Government, that far off on the horizon is the beginning of something that might be called self-reliance, a new pride in self. But they do not believe that it was the result of any Nixon script, but of the failure of Nixon leadership. Although our part in Southeast Asia is diminishing, the killing goes on. Unemployment and inflation continue to hurt because the efforts to cure them, while sincere, are ineffectual. Many demands of minorities are ignored. Only in foreign policy does there seem...
Pictures taken by the astronauts on the moon and released at week's end seemed to support his opinion; all showed a nearby and relatively featureless horizon that would make it difficult for explorers to get their bearings. But Shepard demurred. "I don't believe that we were disoriented or lost at any time," he insisted...
...loses many a battle with Mailer in the article before she winds up winning the war. "By any major literary perspective." says a scornful Mailer, "the land of Millett is a barren and mediocre terrain, its flora reminiscent of a Ph.D. tract, its roads a narrow argument, and its horizon low." Kate is "nothing if not a pug-nosed wit," and "the yaws of her distortion were nicely hidden by the smudge pots of her indignation." As for Millett's views: "She saw the differences between men and women as nonessential-excesses of motion to be conditioned...
...diversionary attacks. Communist raiders occupied a railway station and shelled a munitions factory, a pagoda, the Cambodian navy base on the Mekong and a schoolyard in the city itself. On the horizon, the glow of flames could be seen above the town of Kompong Kantuot, 15 miles from the capital but well within its so-called "defense perimeter...
Nader zipped through a packed schedule, clutching folders and papers, and looking like the soul of seriousness and efficiency. Observing that Japanese exports are the most vulnerable part of the economy, he suggested that mercury-tainted tuna might be "the first glimmer on the horizon" of a new fact: "Japan's pollution problem is being internationalized." and could form "a new kind of nontariff trade barrier...