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...rhetoric. Agnew was Nixon's most flamboyant and aggressive agent in last fall's campaign. Now, like other Vice Presidents before him, including Richard Nixon, he is being cast by some in the White House as a scapegoat for the G.O.P.'s performance. Nixon certainly cannot quarrel with the substance of what Agnew said during the campaign. In retrospect, however, there was something in Agnew's manner, his unpredictability and ferocity, that Nixon did not entirely like. The President, for example, sent Agnew out to capsize New York's liberal Republican Senator Charles Goodell...
...phallic." America: "You are close to the real thing-democracy. But, ah -right now you are not in very good shape." Her five-year marriage to Moviemaker Jules Dassin: "I love Dassin the director. I love Dassin the writer. I love him for his blue eyes. Julie and I quarrel all the time. Quarreling-that's the best part of loving...
Last week, 20 days later, the Soviets finally released the four men after ballooning the incident into an unpleasant cold war quarrel. No deal was made for the return of the officers. After Moscow's announcement that the four would be released, however, the Turkish government agreed to hand over the pilot and one passenger of a small Russian plane that had been hijacked late last month. Even so, the two students who took over the plane remained in Turkish custody, as did the Lithuanian father and son who forced the crew of an Aeroflot plane to land...
...lesson was not lost on a strapping, green-eyed Brazilian mulatto named Carlos Marighella. A longtime Communist and former member of Brazil's congress, Marighella had no quarrel with Guevara's goal of overthrowing the established order-just with his tactics. Marighella believed that the proper approach was to terrorize Latin America's crowded and vulnerable urban areas. It is easier, he reasoned, to fade into a teeming city than to elude an army patrol in a rural district where the peasants distrust all strangers. Marighella put his ideas into a 55-page work of revolution, Minimanual...
...quarrel, sulk and groan...