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Things are seldom what they seem. Skim milk masquerades as cream; High lows pass as patent leathers; Jackdaws strut in peacock feathers...
Style and Substance. Nixon expected no sudden breakthroughs from his voyage of exploration. The benefits of his European odyssey are more subtle than that. His patent concern for European views reflects a quieter, more thoughtful American role in the world. It could considerably improve the tone of international dialogue, injecting a new calm and reasonableness that might produce substantive achievement in lessened tensions and new understanding. On the evidence of his trip, the President has laid a sound foundation for the "new era of negotiation" he often speaks of. Especially, he has eased European edginess over U.S.-Soviet conversations, reassuring...
...there were a patent on Republican professionalism, Richard Nixon and Na tional Chairman Ray Bliss would hold a joint title to it. As pragmatic veterans of many campaigns and as sometime al lies - though never personal friends -the President and the chairman seemed ideal partners to guide the G.O.P...
...encased in plaster from his toes to his zebra-striped bikini shorts, but for all that, the happiest man in Milan last week was probably Expatriate designer Ken Scott. At the height of a wild discotheque party, one of Scott's patent-leather pumps flew off and Scott himself caromed off the raised dance floor on his way to multiple fractures...
Harvard's conventional wisdom says that power over undergraduates' social affairs is vested in the COH. This is about 90 per cent patent untruth, though it is probably to the advantage of the administration to allow such a false impression to continue. Discontented students will waste all their time trying to deal with the antiquated Committee. In fact, the COH has a great deal of power only by comparison to the absolute impotency of student groups, like...