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THAT MORNING we returned to the house, picking up stones and shells from the beach on the way. He mumbled a little, but he seemed quieter and his anger subsided away from the roar of the waves and the people on the beach. At sunset, though, I heard the tide turn, and I thought of the fog. I looked around and he was gone...
Crowd Was Quieter...
...crowd last night was smaller and quieter than the one that gathered in the council's chambers at City Hall Monday night. At that meeting, the council rejected a motion to abolish controls entirely made by Councillor Thomas W. Danehy. Danehy, as well as Councillors Daniel J. Clinton and Saundra Graham, did not attend last night...
...separated, preplotted targets. Some Soviet missiles in operation then also had multiple warheads, but they were not independently targeted. When fired, they sprayed from the missile launcher along a straight line like pellets from a shotgun. In addition, though the Soviets had more missile-firing submarines, U.S. subs were quieter, making them harder to detect, and many of the American SLBMS carried from ten to 14 warheads each. As a further deterrent, the U.S. maintained three times as many long-range bombers as Russia...
...home, he manfully wages war not so much with the floundering Democrats as with a more dangerously hostile press, "which claimed it understood and spoke for the people better than he did himself." For years a critic of Nixonian hatchet politics, White has grown increasingly sympathetic to the now quieter Nixon style. Proudly and yet often painfully aware that he was "essentially alone" in everything he did, White writes, Nixon developed a remarkable "fatalism of outlook and a personal melancholy which added wisdom to his reflections...