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...purpose of my party ... In this spirit I expect to support the nominees, as well as the pro gram, of the party in 1960." One para mount party problem in the 1960 cam paign will be to convince independents that Nixon is a modern Republican and not the pawn of the Old Guard right wing, as the Democrats gleefully charge (although Californian Nixon was, in fact, a modern Republican before Eisenhower was a candidate or before Rockefeller had a political gleam...
...Council voted to establish a committee with Reiff as chairman to publicize an experimental sale next year. Reiff suggested a slogan to the effect of "Keep your books; you can pawn them off on a dumb Freshman in the fall...
...love affair seems dramatically as well as thematically plausible. Heather Sears, cast as the daughter of the local power, employs her bland manner with purpose. Her pleasant, but empty face, and her unobtrusiveness, admirably heighten her own meaningless relationship to Harvey. Knowing that her role is one of the pawn, she has enough sense not to turn it into a tour de force performance...
...maned Leopold Stokowski, over custody arrangements for their two sons, Stan. 9, and Christopher, 7. Insisting that Stokowski is really 85 (72, he claims) and "seeks to be restored to the tyrannical and despotic power he asserted over me when we were married," Gloria, herself a onetime child-custody pawn, disclosed that she once warned Stokie in a letter: "I do not want my boys exposed to your paranoid attitudes." In rejoinder, the maestro tartly accused Gloria of absentee motherism, late to bed and late to rise, traipsing out for dinner, often missing lunch with the children because she "makes...
...more than a pretext for war. If war comes this year-God forbid-over the Berlin crisis, it will come as a deliberate, calculated stratagem of Red aggression. Berlin is just another phase of their long-term plan to subjugate the free world. The Berlin question is just a pawn in their hands, and will certainly not determine, of itself, whether there shall be peace...