Word: outright
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Arrayed against the impressive show of official strength will be, if plans jell, one of the oddest, least cohesive armies in history-an uncoordinated alliance of hippies, yippies, antiwar militants, unhappy liberals and far-out radicals. Goals vary from outright disruption of the convention proceedings to a ribald mockery of the electoral system. The yippies (members of the Youth International Party) plan to nominate a 220-Ib. pig, Pigasus, for President, on a platform of garbage-"just like the platform of all the other parties." Groups led by the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Viet...
...role in Miami Beach was described by many observers as that of kingmaker. It would be more accurate to say that he acted as the king's bodyguard, jealously fending off the Reagan forces because they could not carry the nation, and assiduously blocking the selection of an outright liberal as Nixon's No. 2 man. Thurmond & Co. finally settled for Spiro Agnew, not as a friend but certainly as a non-enemy...
...question among Ibos as to who must lead them. Ojukwu, besides his gifts of intellect and training, was the federal Nigerian governor of the Eastern Region and thus held the key to all its resources. True to his profound belief in Nigerian unity, Ojukwu first argued against outright secession and urged Easterners to settle for a radical loosening of ties with the rest of Nigeria. The ruthless slaughter by the North, he pleaded, was "the final act of sacrifice that Easterners would be called upon to make in the interest of Nigerian unity...
Huntley and Brinkley are off the air, their show abruptly shelved. Lawrence Spivak, Mike Wallace and Curt Gowdy are fired outright. Edwin Newman is still on the payroll but restricted to covering baseball. Howard K. Smith has been forcibly retired, and Eric Sevareid has been rusticated to the local sta tion in Keokuk. In their place are unknown third-stringers, providing bland, cursory newscasts culled from the wire services. Translated from the French, that is the situation U.S. televiewers would face this week...
Good Memories. Indeed, though his position papers and public pronouncements inch toward independence from the Johnson Administration, Humphrey himself vacillates, afraid that outright divorcement has perhaps even more dangers than advantages. "I do not intend to run for the office of President of the United States," he told a $500-a-plate dinner in Washington, "by turning my back on those who have stood with me." Tears filled his eyes and his voice cracked with emotion as he said that he had no intention of "repudiating the work of my party, my President and his predecessors...