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...stories from the lobby-an impressive effect. It makes the inside of the hotel look Like a shopping mall that has ambitions to become a cathedral. Or, on the night of the presidential debate, like a sort of gala high-rise tenement. Tiers of balconies, one on every floor, overlook the lobby. They were festooned that night with American flags and sheets emblazoned with Republican slogans, and the faithful leaned out over each ledge to cheer Ronald Reagan when he returned from the debate: "Four more years! Four more years...
...assigning blame and guilt solely to military men for the tragedy of the illegitimate Amerasian children [NATION, Sept. 24], you overlook the thousands of newsmen, civilian contractors, Government employees and merchants who flocked to Viet Nam in pursuit of the dollar...
...airport facilities, including J.F.K. The Foreign Minister was sufficiently incensed by their action to cancel abruptly and angrily his appearance at the U.N. Not even an offer by Washington to allow his craft to put down at a U.S. military airfield could persuade Gromyko to overlook what he clearly regarded as an officially tolerated affront to Soviet dignity. In subsequent months, he demonstrated, by words and attitude, his own displeasure with...
...prosecution tried to persuade the jury to overlook the witnesses' apparent character defects. Argued Attorney Perry: "For a plot hatched in hell, don't expect angels for witnesses." But the argument seemed to backfire. The jurors said afterward that they found themselves as disturbed by the Government's conduct as they were by De Lorean's. "Entrapment was a critical issue that had a lot of impact on us," Evelyn Dowell, a homemaker, told TIME. "I thought De Lorean's actions " could be questioned, but I think the Government acted in a questionable manner. Neither...
...Wills Moody, Mo Connolly, King - and speculating, as tennis people do, about how she would fare in dream matches against them. It is part of the respect anyone on the verge of winning this tournament five times gets. But even those who appreciate her no-weakness game tend to overlook the fact that she has come further emotionally than anyone else who has ever played this game...