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...stay up all night for you." The reflective mood drops away. "I grabbed a clean shirt after the final vote and here I am," he yells, delighted with the show of affection. At the Arlington Hotel, he speaks for 40 minutes to some 700 young Democrats; they interrupt the talk with 25 standing ovations...
Before defense lawyers could interrupt, Army Prosecutor Major Carroll J. Tichenor challenged: "Do you realize you have completely disgraced and dishonored the uniform you wore?" Medina's quiet reply...
Whatever Hanoi does, Nixon is not likely to interrupt the withdrawals more than temporarily. For one thing, the cooled American temper on the war would probably flare up again should the pullout stop-and it would surely rise sharply if Nixon were to send new U.S. forces into battle. For another, the Administration may well be correct in thinking that as the U.S. presence dwindles, public opinion round the world will bear down progressively on Hanoi to repatriate the American P.O.W.s. Certainly the Administration intends to build up all the pressure...
Even Beverly has her breaking point, however. Once, at a rehearsal in Manhattan, a conductor reprimanded her: "Don't interrupt me when I'm speaking to somebody else." Beverly said: "I'll go you one better. I won't sing when you're conducting," and stomped offstage. During the preparations for her La Scala appearance, she climaxed an argument with the wardrobe mistress by snatching a pair of scissors and snipping a costume into pieces. The onlooking cast and chorus burst into applause, an Italian tribute to a flare of real temperament...
...What the pipeline will do is interrupt the overfall of the old sewers into the river during heavy rains." Dennis Holly of the J.F. White Contracting Company, the firm in charge of construction, said yesterday...