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Huntington also said Rockefeller's announcement might be designed to quell conservative Republican criticism about the dismissal of Schlesinger and to prevent Schlesinger from the becoming the right's "martyr" to the cause of military preparedness...
...impulse, without calculating how people will react to them. This problem has led Hall into some sticky situations when, for instance, he has been called by The Crimson for comment on a volatile story. Bok and others in Mass Hall have recognized this and have encouraged Hall to quell his impulse to express his gut reactions. For example, in a confidential memo relayed from Daly to Bok, Robin Schmidt, assistant vice president for government affairs, advised in September 1974 that the Bok administration should continue to head off some of Hall's comments that appear to ignore the "scholarly concerns...
...followers. Nor can he be without their faithful responses to every shift in pressure registered by his absurdly delicate inner barometer. For their part, his manager, his producer, his ex-wife and the women who will not be denied his bed are ever willing to allow him to quell their exasperation with a dollop of charm, always measured out at precisely the moment it is required...
...spectators gallery. Sketch artists and television reporters craned for a better view. Defense Attorneys Ramsey Clark and William Kunstler and their young convict clients sat at an L-shaped table scarcely five feet from Chief Prosecutor Louis Aidala. Sheriffs' deputies and bailiffs stood poised to quell any disturbance. Outside, as many as 400 pickets marched in chilling rain and snow round the gray granite edifice...
...announcements have yet been made, but it is now all but certain that the President will seek a tax cut in his State of the Union message later this month. In addition, the Administration has also apparently given up on trying to cut the budget in an attempt to quell inflation. That decision alone, tentatively taken after two days of intensive discussions between Ford and his economic advisers at the President's vacation chalet in Vail, Colo., could mean that the federal deficit for the fiscal year beginning next July will swell to a massive $35 billion. The fact...