Word: nixons
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...what would be his first visit to a college since he resigned in 1974, former President Richard M. Nixon may speak at Harvard next spring at the invitation of the Harvard Republican Club...
...There's definitely a good change he's coming," Michael T. Kerr '81, the club's publicity director, said yesterday. Nixon and his appointments secretary, who are traveling in Europe, could not be reached for comment yesterday...
...invitation, which was sent to Nixon last month, sparked controversy within the Republican Club and among some Massachusetts Republicans. Richard W. Berenson '80, a member of the club, resigned yesterday after news of the invitation was made public...
...deaths (no one will ever really be sure whether they were all suicides, or whether some drank the poison at gunpoint) have stolen the world's attention away from less exotic, less titillating news. In short, the Jonestown affair has become the most publicized spot-news event since Richard Nixon's resignation, with every form of media jumping on each set of gruesome revelations and/or body counts, screaming them out to a public drooling for more, repulsed and fascinated at the same time. Indeed, the publicity surrounding the event would obscure anything less ghoulish, but in this case, nothing...
...hours' notice, produce two or three thousand obedient bodies to flesh out a campaign rally or go door-to-door with literature. His services apparently went to the politico willing to do the most in return. Jones could deliver, even if his political army was somehow reminiscent of Nixon's Youth in 1972, that wonderful army that would begin spontaneous cheering at 9:28 and spontaneously stop at 9:33, when the Trickster would spontaneously appear. If you didn't believe it was spontaneous, you could look at their mimeographed schedules--it said so right there. Of course, there...