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...Rhodes shares their apprehensions, but oh-deeing is not in his bones. His candor, his activism and his penchant for making quotable statements all qualify him as the commission's most controversial and audible member. He began filling that distinction right from the start by suggesting that deaths on the campus could be linked to White House criticism of students. For that Rhodes drew the wrath of Vice President Spiro Agnew, who called?vainly ?for Rhodes' resignation just three days after his appointment...
...TIME, you can't opt for the demise of dogs and man's true friend. I have had in my lifetime three wives and 14 dogs. And guess what? I'll take the dogs any day. They are loyal, loving and lack the penchant for pollution that my three helpmates...
Moynihan's penchant for controversyspread to members of his staff, Richard D. Blumenthal '67, who went to Washington with Moynihan as an aide, was offered the job of director of Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA), and OEO community organizing project. Ninety-one members of Congress-some of whom had criticized VISTA as a group of "troublemakers"-signed a petition to Nixon urging him to withdraw the offer...
Junie (Liza Minnelli) is a wild young thing with a penchant for what may be restrainedly described as the wrong kind of guy. Her date asks her to strip for him in a cemetery and, after she has a good laugh about that, he tops off a halcyon evening by dragging her into a used-car lot and pouring battery acid over her face. Naturally she is scarred for life. She takes up residence in a dilapidated shack with two other freaks (as they flippantly refer to themselves). One is a crippled homosexual (Robert Moore) and the other a good...
America's Penchant. Washington, like Philadelphia, is still forcefully lobbying to win the designation, and Vice President Spiro Agnew and Maryland's Senator Joseph Tydings are active in lobbying for the capital. Also rooting for Washington are the Joint Center for Urban Studies of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University, plus the American Academy of Arts and Sciences...