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Kissinger, the book goes on, kept pressuring Nixon to make him Secretary of State for both substantial and petty reasons. He feared that Nixon, in his deteriorating condition, might do something rash in foreign affairs; as Secretary, Kissinger would be in a better position to block it. He also was contemptuous of William Rogers, who then held the job. He considered Rogers weak and inept and actually went out of his way to humiliate the Secretary. Kissinger finally threatened to quit if he could not have Rogers' post; Nixon yielded. But when Nixon sent Haig to tell Rogers...
...kept insisting, right to the end. At one point, at the request of the special prosecutor, Federal Judge John J. Sirica had ordered the White House to produce a Dictabelt that Nixon claimed to have made to summarize a meeting with his estranged counsel, John Dean, on April 15, 1973. Nixon, who apparently had never made the recording, asked one of his lawyers: "Why can't we make a new Dictabelt?" The lawyer was understandably appalled that Nixon, himself an attorney, would consider concocting evidence for the court...
...marriage, and declared that the breakup should "be a lesson to all of us men to be careful not to marry ladies in very high positions, as husbands in such marriages can summarily be dismissed by their wives." Amin cabled his regrets to Snowdon in Australia, where the photographer kept busy last week with an exhibit of his photos in Sydney. Meg, meanwhile, dutifully returned to her official functions and took Son Viscount Linley to visit the destroyer H.M.S. Hampshire in London. The ship, which she and Snowdon launched in 1961, is about to be scrapped...
Whether made by the old or new pornographers, most hardcore movies have kept close to the single proven formula: endless scenes of copulation, strung along in an unnoticeable plot. But now porn-film makers are breaking away from the standard formula. One way consists of cutting out some of the crasser scenes and trying for the lyrical, romantic porn presumably favored by women. Example: the 1974 French import Emmanuelle, with welling music and tugging at heartstrings, started a newly profitable trend toward sleeker soft-core scenes. Another approach provides new jolts for jaded fans. One current porn film, Sweet Movie...
...time for an autograph session but his books were not. A complaint to his publishers brought promises of action. Indeed, a stack of his books awaited him at other stops. Only later did Maas learn that it was the same stack of books that his publishers kept shipping one step ahead...