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...problem. Some congressional Republicans believe that Nixon will arrange to relax the money squeeze well before ballot time. But at least one of the President's most trusted advisers has counseled him to risk unpopularity in 1970 and concentrate on stopping inflation before the 1972 presidential race. Any letup now, he feels, would give Nixon a politically lethal credibility gap on the issue of inflation?a gap that could
...people who just kept coming, one after another every few yards. Here it was 3:30 a. m., and it seemed a certainty that there would be a lag. But these people just kept coming, and they were to march into view there for another 28 hours without a letup. Each one with a name...
...real good football team. I'm sure you fellows know that. "Well, today he and his boys go to Providence with reasonable hopes of bringing back an even record. Look, Sec Joe throw. Brown's had a disappointing year, and if the Bruins expect a letup today, they might as well expect Patches to be washed up on the bank of the river down by the coal mine-alive...
Minus the Trademark. Initially, Arab leaders took the fedayeen's side. Many openly roasted Lebanon's President Charles Helou for refusing to allow them free movement. But last week, shocked that the crisis showed no signs of letup, the Arabs grew uneasy. Nasser invited both sides to conciliatory talks. Lebanese Army Chief Emile Bustani promptly flew into Cairo with proposals for a truce. In agreeing to the meeting, Helou insisted that "Lebanon's sovereignty should not be less than that of any other Arab state." In other words, he still wanted final say about where the guerrillas...
...renamed, like the one at Chino, "Institutions for Men," and will permit weekend connubial visits for the married inmates. Universities will adopt cable-television systems that will permit students to "attend" their classes at home?and, incidentally, to keep their cars from jamming the highways. There will be no letup from nude-look fashion designers, who foresee the day when it will be commonplace for women to wear only body cosmetics from the waist up. The men will continue to wear clothes?but ever flashier ones. The antiestablishmentarians who created the underground press have already been trying some new wrinkles...