Word: notes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Vice President William Small, who has taken note of all of the claims about a disillusioned nation, points out that the 85 million or so viewers came back each time for the presidential debates and, says Small, "they stayed until the end-there was no audience tail-off." Obviously they wanted to know, good or bad. Harris insists that, as never before in political history, the smiles, the thoughts, bad words, verbal goofs have penetrated to darkest ghetto and most remote hamlet...
...there before was a nebbish, but I think I like the way he wore his hair better. Didn't neglect it like this guy does. But I suppose it's benign. (Note: this is an obligatory joke, which may be skipped at the discretion of the reader...
...invade. Carter also flubbed by saying that a Soviet move into Yugoslavia involved "the internal affairs of another country." He had a point when he argued that such a move was highly unlikely and would not directly threaten U.S. security. But security is a flexible concept; he failed to note that an invasion of Yugoslavia would rock all of Europe and could have unforeseen global repercussions...
...bitter dissent from Judge George MacKinnon, who pointed out that DeCoster's lawyer had not talked to the suggested witnesses because he believed DeCoster was guilty, a fact DeCoster in effect conceded during posttrial procedures. Reviewing Bazelon's liberal record, the conservative MacKinnon sounded an unusually personal note, saying that "practically all criminal convictions would be set aside" if Bazelon had his way. "What my colleague overlooks is that the public has some right to have the guilty convicted." Colleague Bazelon may also have neglected to consider fully the increasingly conservative view of the Supreme Court-where last...
...helicopter from WEEI radio delivered "Leonard Bernstein" to Soldiers Field during Saturday's half-time show to lead a group of Harvard-Radcliffe musicians in a barely audible piece of classical music. The helicopter's landing provided the only note of concord between the rival sides all afternoon...