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...anything I can think of or suggest" (see First, also Secheba, February 1969). Despite Engelhard's hollow words about his concern for the "dignity of man" and "improved skills and living conditions," his mines were just as brutal and inhumane as any other South African mine. Actions speak louder than words. Never by word or by deed did Engelhard condemn the migrant labor system which he enforced and from which he profited. He never once demanded an end to political repression. He never once called for black majority rule. Whatever his connections with liberal America, innocence by association cannot exonerate...
...inflation fight. He drew an impressive 40,000 people on a rainy day in Nashville, and he ended his speech by asking: "Will you help me with our anti-inflation program? Will you help me?" The response from the crowd was only mildly enthusiastic. The President drew louder cheers in sunny Miami when he asked a rally of some 1,000 mostly elderly citizens: "When I get back to Washington and get that less-than-perfect tax bill, do you think I ought to sign it?" As his listeners roared "Yes!" Carter grinned and replied: "I will take your advice...
...Richard Nixon's nomination of Clement Haynsworth to the Supreme Court in 1969. Griffin also stresses, in current TV ads, the fight he made this year against the Panama Canal Treaties. Says he: "Next year I'll have even more seniority and my no will be even louder." Levin responds by scathingly calling Griffin "Senator No Show...
...talk much louder you could get an award...
...center and second biggest industrial city. Gone are the 60,000 foreigners who ran the city as a fiefdom for a century. Gone too are the singsong girls and the 30,000 prostitutes who once plied the streets, and the opium dens and the gambling halls. The people are louder and livelier and more independent than the prim Pekingese. Shanghai has the vibrancy and hustle of New York. It boasts 140 round-the-clock (jih-ye) shops and eating places. Shanghai winks, but never sleeps...