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...PLAIN, solid-thinking, no-nonsense Swiss engineer visits a drab, small-town cafe to make a speech in his campaign for the Swiss parliament. He stands erect at the podium with all of his bourgeois respectability, smoothly articulating his planned platitudes to a carefully selected, receptive audience. Midway through his speech the moderator calls for a break so that the listeners can refresh themselves with mugs of beer--on the house, of course. From behind the counter emerges a waitress carrying a tray of refreshments, and a striking entrance it is: tall and slender, with long black hair and deep...
...filed thousands of refugees who had fled the Vietnamese coast in small boats-barefoot, poor and bandy-legged, bringing little more with them than the soiled, flimsy clothing they wore, carrying infants and small bundles of belongings. They were not the endangered elite of a fallen nation, but instead plain soldiers, fishermen and gnarled farmers. One wealthy Vietnamese immigrant who watched them said superciliously: "You can tell by their accents that they are only peasants. They are the wrong people. They should never have come. They will only make it more difficult for the rest of the Vietnamese...
...Steinbrenner did just that. After he reluctantly became a Democrat for Nixon, his Government troubles faded (though he later received a fine for illegally using corporate funds as political donations). When O'Neill heard Steinbrenner's story, he knew he was in the presence of a "plain, old-fashioned goddamned shakedown." Thereafter, he began saying of Nixon, "This fellow is going to get himself impeached...
...held to choose 247 members of an assembly that is to write a new constitution, but its terms were sharply circumscribed. The major parties bowed to the M.F.A.'s demand that the military oversee operations of the government for the next three to five years. It was made plain that the present Cabinet of Premier Vasco dos Santos Goncalves would not be substantially changed, no matter what the electoral outcome. In it, the Socialists, Popular Democrats and Communists each have two portfolios, and the Democratic Movement one. Real power will remain with the 28-member Revolutionary Council, composed...
...remarks contribute to this lack of confidence in his ability. In 1968, he opened a speech at Tulane University by saying. "Whenever a person is called upon to make a speech, the first question that enters his mind is. 'What shall I talk about?'" In some cases, he betrays plain ignorance. Responding to a question about his foreign policy experience during the Senate confirmation hearings on his nomination to the vice presidency. Ford claimed that his 12-day visit to China with the late Congressman Hale Boggs had given him "a unique opportunity to travel the length and breadth...