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...conservatives, according to Buckley: "They can stay home. They will not go out and win new votes through their enthusiasm. This is very important, because it is the conservatives who hustle up the money, who are the shock troops in campaigns. If what is now a concern gels into outright opposition, Nixon will have lost a source of support, energy, drive and money...
...growing fear is that in the absence of an even relatively mild "incomes policy" (for example, nonmandatory wage and price guidelines and at least strong verbal attacks by the President against excessive increases), there will be pressure for harsher measures. These might include a temporary wage freeze or even outright controls...
...doctors warning them that synthetic estrogenic hormones should not be prescribed during pregnancy. He added that young women with irregular vaginal bleeding (usually attributed to ovulation failure) should be carefully checked for precancerous signs. Ingraham has also suggested to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration that it forbid outright the prescribing of stilbestrol during pregnancy. This type of compound is still considered valuable for men with prostate cancer and for some cases of breast cancer...
From Flophouse to Gallery. For New York's better-heeled artists, the reaction was straightforward: buy a SoHo building outright, or convert it into a coop. A pioneer of that gambit was Louise Nevelson, who purchased a vacant five-story sanitarium on Spring Street and turned it into a succession of mysterious caves lined with her black, white, gold and Plexiglas constructions. Roy Lichtenstein acquired one vast floor of a bankrupt bank on the Bowery (other floors were taken by Adolph Gottlieb and Barnett Newman). Kenneth Noland bought a storage building; Robert Rauschenberg, a flophouse-cum-church on Lafayette...
...plaintiff, Controleur Général de Police Michel Gonzales, was confident that no judge would uphold the defendant. In polite society, after all, one never even says merde outright but le mot de Cambronne, a reference to the same word used by a Napoleonic general when the British suggested that he surrender at Waterloo...