Word: lanning
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...lan Vital.-After complacently enjoying the Democrats in disarray, the Republicans now have an in-house problem of their own. John Ashbrook, a virtually unknown Congressman from Ohio, announced that he would challenge the President in New Hampshire and maybe in later primaries as well. Nixon, he complained, has deserted his conservatism. The Administration does not anticipate much trouble from California Congressman Paul McCloskey, who is seeking liberal Republican votes in New Hampshire. But Ashbrook could prove to be more of a threat. Though upset over many of the President's policies, the conservative wing of the party...
...which has been picking quarrels with Nixon for some time. Agnew was sent to New York to try to dissuade Publisher William Rusher and Editor William Buckley, but they stuck to their principles. Wrote Buckley: "Mr. Ashbrook's entry into the race is the expression of an élan vital in the conservative movement, which has been strangely muted during the past several years in Congress, where the stout old soldiers of conservatism used to do round-the-clock duty...
...hash-out between players and officials after the game, it was found that the slips incurred by both the Eracondos-Lan Chile combination team and the North Miami squad were limited to players whose shoes had high hard cleats which kept the sole line of their shoes above the grass...
...Vietnam has been a failure of visualization. It has been too easy to develop a seven o'clock news mentality that agonizes only thirty minutes a day. So Coutard particularizes circumstances and thus humanizes them. Hung is a kind of Vietnamese Huck Finn, and the acting of young Phi Lan in that role is completely sympathetic...
...With customary élan, the police joined the fray. Captain Daniel McGowan of the Public Morals Task Force was assigned to the new post of "Director of Prostitution Control." Patrols in the area were beefed up with plainclothesmen borrowed from the gambling detail and men of the mobile Tactical Patrol Force, many armed with cameras to capture the girls in the act of soliciting. There were also efforts to discourage, through arrests, the live sex shows that complement the streetside spectacle, and some talk, mostly just that, of prosecuting "Johns," as the girls call their customers. Finally, the police established...