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Permissive Flab. Even now, Liddy hardly tells all; he does not even use the word Watergate. But he does provide a fascinating peek into his psyche, writing what could be taken as a justification of the spying activities that he proposed and supervised. He perceives a radical threat to the "constitutional system" because the right of peaceful assembly "to seek redress of grievances was corrupted into violence, and freedom of expression into license." Words such as fatherland crop up repeatedly, along with Liddy's conviction that the U.S. is smothering and softening in permissive flab. He praises the "tough...
After a perilous 21-month journey across more than half a billion miles of space, a tiny, unmanned spacecraft named Pioneer 10 passed within 81,000 miles of the giant planet Jupiter last December. That first close-up peek at the sun's largest satellite lasted barely...
...American women, manufacturers are producing several variations on the minibikini. Alexander's department store in New York has a version with a peek-through top. Cole of California Executive Jack Healy claims that his firm has "engineered the String differently so it will be wearable." The rear half of the unrefined Rio version, Healy says, "keeps creeping toward the center, and the wearer has to tug at it all the time...
...peek around the league reveals that the meet's top performer could be Penn's Dennis Fikes. The Penn senior kicked to a 3:55 mile behind winner Tony Waldrop at the Penn Relays, and will be the undisputed pick to notch first in the mile event...
...York's Hudson River. He plots Mark Adams' unsentimental education with the synchronized precision of a military operation. In addition to this main objective, he also assaults a number of targets of opportunity. There are flash backs about upper-class courtship and wedding rituals, a peek into office politics at U.S. Army training bases, and a particularly biting set piece about affluent Connecticut Episcopalians singing We Shall Overcome at a memorial service for Martin Luther King...