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There he participated in a warm ceremony welcoming 140 men and women of 37 nationalities who were about to become American citizens. Pat Nixon gave each new citizen an American-flag pin like the one the President wears in his lapel. Then all-including Candidate Smith-adjourned to a buffet table adorned with a large spun-sugar elephant...
...fleets, Marines and righteous cannon fire-as when Thomas Jefferson dispatched U.S. frigates under Stephen Decatur to clean out the Barbary pirates who menaced American trade in the Mediterranean. Wistfully truculent, California's Governor Ronald Reagan complained last week: "It used to be that an American could simply pin a little American flag on him and be safe even in the midst of a revolution in some other country, because the world knew that this country would go any place in the world to get back any citizen of ours." Richard Nixon argued during the 1968 campaign: "When respect...
...hired Tinker just because the Alka-Seltzer ads were so good. The firm is still doing Rockefeller's spots. Not only images but also their makers are sometimes flexible. In 1964, one of the West Coast's most important political management firms, Spencer-Roberts & Associates, helped Rockefeller pin an ultraconservative label on Barry Goldwater and his active backers, including Ronald Reagan. Two years later, working for Reagan, their first move was to try to remove...
When they turn to the major issues, negotiators from each side will probably spend many hours trying to pin down the other side's concept of a final settlement. For the Israelis, this means determining whether the Arabs will listen to discussions aimed toward formal recognition and secure borders for Israel, or whether they would agree only to a more vague armistice. For the Arabs, it means ferreting out how much occupied territory Israel is willing to return...
...even see; the ball rolled dead two feet from the hole, and he had a birdie three. On the 13th, Stockton's second shot splashed into a pond; he took a one-stroke penalty, dropped another ball and hit a wedge to within a foot of the pin to avoid a double bogey...