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...work as a driver, I was surprised that so few whites had volunteered to aid the American Indian Movement. A news conference was beginning as I wormed my way through the tight security. (AIM leaders fear that the government has infiltrated their ranks; they keep a 24-hour-a-day vigil at the defense headquarters...
...call to Cape Kennedy: How soon could a rescue vehicle be made ready for launch? He also checked with NASA headquarters in Washington about such a mission. By midmorning, after emergency meetings in Washington, Houston and the Cape, Kraft had his answers. A three-shift, 24-hour-a-day operation could get a rescue vehicle (actually the command ship originally designated to be used by the third Skylab team) ready for launch by September 10. NASA headquarters also approved the cost: at least an extra...
...Center will maintain 24-hour-a-day telephone service. Women staffers will provide emergency transportation for rape victims, and accompany them to hospitals and police stations...
...heighten the contrast between himself and his sluggish, dissolute predecessor, Bhutto kept to an exhausting 18-hour-a-day schedule. The whirlwind of activity was designed not only to solidify his one-man rule over Pakistan, but also to restore the shattered confidence of his countrymen. He has purged the bureaucracy as well as the armed forces, firing, among others, the attorney general, the chief of intelligence and the governor of the state bank. He has outlined plans for land reform, free primary education and an improved public health program...
...There is, though, one problem you find yourself facing when you deal with a man like Richard Nixon, an unctious, 'umble Uriah Heep, a 24-hour-a-day self-parody: he himself is so funny he pre-empts all other forms of comic abuse. Now Philip Roth is not a writer to be shaken off when there's a laugh to be trailed, shadowed and nabbed. But in reading Our Gang, you get the sense that Richard Nixon did indeed give Roth a run for his money...