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...income, he played exhibition matches between halves of the Globetrotters' basketball games and conned wealthy amateurs into believing that they could beat him if he gave away 19 points and sat in a chair. If the money was right, Reisman would even play with a garbage-can lid. After being approached by a Chinese smuggler during a Far Eastern tour, the kid padded himself with contraband gold, then ferried it across international borders...
...kind of crap that Wasp mothers keep on hand for kiddie snacks. Mary with her dia betes and me with my weight problems, we used to love to open that jar and just sniff the sugary smell. We'd say, 'Oh, wow!' then put the lid back on. So that's what I did. I took a sniff, put the lid back on and had a good nostalgic...
...program are clear enough. The goal of goals will be to reduce inflation; if that can be done, the President says, "most of our other domestic problems can be solved." The chief strategy will be to slash federal spending and let the Federal Reserve keep a relatively tight lid on money and credit growth, at the risk of turning the threat of recession into an actuality. But there will be special help to ease hardship, in the form of programs to aid housing, the cash-strapped utilities industry and, most important, the people thrown out of work. The programs have...
There has been other evidence that the radical-moderate feud has heated up. Over the past two weeks, posters have appeared on walls within view of the municipal office building accusing "Official XX" of "keeping the lid" on the anti-Confucius campaign. The target is believed to be Peking's top official, Wu Teh, a moderate and a supporter of Premier Chou Enlai. However, the moderates struck back with posters defending "Official XX." They denounced the authors of the earlier posters as "bad elements" who "indulge in fabrication, lies and calumny...
Some New Englanders, of course, spoke up for the President. Bruce Callahan, an engineer from Lee, Mass., declared: "Nixon acted wisely in keeping the lid on the whole thing. If he had shot off his mouth when he first learned of it, he might have impaired the cases of a lot of people who were going to stand trial." But negative sentiment was stronger. Said Morgan James, a telephone worker in Boston: "If he was concerned with the country, he would do what Willy Brandt did in Germany and resign for the good...