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...lead to look into, as did all those ballyhooed claims that Carter had trimmed "Big Government" and inefficiency in his 1970-1974 tenure in the Governor's mansion. At the same time, out on the Iowa delegate trail, the roving press pundits following Carter took note of his expediently pliant statements on abortion. Columnists Robert Evans and William Novak inveighed against Carter's abortion hedging, and major liberal newspapers and magazines picked up the theme. Robert Healy, executive editor and grand polemicist of the Boston Globe, entered the fray with a series of columns denouncing Carter as a "pseudo-liberal...
...more than a century Saigon has played coy mistress to a series of foreign masters. Seemingly pliant, she has been occupied by Chinese conquerors, French colonialists, Japanese invaders and American troops. When the French arrived in 1862, Saigon was an unprepossessing village of palm trees and straw shacks. Then homesick planners dreaming of Paris remade her to suit their own visions. Narrow, winding streets were rearranged into the neat geometry of spacious public squares and broad boulevards. A twin-spired cathedral, an opera house, a palace were built to grace the squares. But if Saigon was kept in style...
...which he replied. "Gracias, gracias." Tribulation (Walter Matherly) and Ananias (Sam Guckenheimer) are two whacked-out sectaries from the most extreme of the Protestant lunatic frings; Kastrll (Lee Silverman) is suitably boorish but sometimes so much so that you can't understand what he's saying. Dame Pliant (Andrea Stein) is a dumb blonde who turns out to be the prize for the rogue who out-cozens everyone, Lovewit (Will Englund), who returns from a vacation to appropriate everything Subtle and his partner Face (Charles Weinstein) have stolen. He is indulgently intelligent, the consummate man of the world...
Certainly the judicial system, overworked, pliant to the wills of those with power, prestige and money, deserves part of the blame. But after you spend some times at the "state hospital" or treatment center, you begin to feel as if the courts are only sorting out pre-marked parcels. Many state hospital and treatment center inmates are persons of average intelligence or above who went to school for four, six, and even eight years without being taught to read on the first grade level. They are able-bodied people who could not find jobs in a country which in this...
There are some pessimistic voices about the economic prospects of a Ford Administration. Daniel Fitz-Gerald, chairman of San Diego-based Wickes Corp., a big retailer of furniture and building supplies, predicts that Congress will not long remain pliant if Ford starts whacking away at the budget in earnest: "He will discover that once he starts tampering with everyone's favorite pork barrel, you can lose some friends fast." Milwaukee Banker Neil Johnston predicts that double-digit inflation will continue for some years, no matter who is President. But Ford has at least a chance to make a fresh...