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...running mate also appeased the conservatives, but at the risk of exasperating many others in and out of the G.O.P. Some suspected that the Reaganites had all but forced the President to choose Dole?or someone else from the right. Actually, Ford had his own reasons for picking the Kansan...
That is the gist of a warmly appealing play by David Wiltse. His hero, Suggs (William Atherton), is a Kansan Candide. One of his ideas of what makes New York City the best of all possible worlds is sex. A series of girls (all played by Lee Lawson) parades through his bachelor flat, but a sense of repetitious futility makes him marry a girl (also Lawson) for whom he has no sexual appetite...
...Gaulle still remained something of a mystery to Americans. He claimed a grandeur, a synecdoche of self and nation ("La France, c'est moi"), which in another man would have seemed monstrously totalitarian, or at least extremely eccentric. America's last comparable hero was Dwight Eisenhower, as Kansan as De Gaulle was Cartesian, and it may be that Ike was the last man who could have said with any safety: "I am America!" Richard Nixon would not dare to try the formulanor would Georges Pompidou, for that matter. The U.S. has accommodated itself to a life...
Plea for Civility. The occasion for the speech was as appropriate as the setting. It was the first of K-State's Alfred M. Landon Lectures this year, a gracious presidential gesture to the 83-year-old Kansan who survived his humiliation in 1936 at the hands of Franklin Roosevelt to become a minor elder statesman of the Republican Party. K-State, as political instinct and the Secret Service informed Nixon, was a comparatively safe campus on which he could propound his ideas on radical violence; Nixon won the 1968 mock election there...
...their ages and, because of state liquor laws, influencing their Cokes from brown paper bags. On each table at the Hilton Inn was a construction-paper centerpiece noting the most important events of the past ten years. In 1963, John Kennedy's assassination. In 1965, Debbie Bryant (a Kansan) named Miss America. In 1966, Kansan Jim Ryun runs the fastest mile. Not a word about Viet...