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...posts; it would also have provided ample opportunity for political fence mending on company time, as it were. As an added lure, Humphrey was offered veto power over all Democratic appointees to the Nixon Administration in Cabinet, sub-Cabinet, White House and regulatory-agency posts. He was guaranteed a quota of Democrats to place in these jobs. As U.N. Ambassador, he would also have had Nixon's go-ahead to spend whatever time he felt necessary to rebuild the Democratic party. Finally, said Nixon, he knew that Humphrey would make plans to run against...
...might have predicted the lobby had its quota of potted plants that almost looked real, as well as a man in a light linen suit who stopped reading the Magnolia Daily Defender as I strode into the library. As the receiver hit the cradle of the phone she looked at the card, then looked at me, then said, more with her eyes than with her mouth, "Oh, so you're Mr. Wilson." By the time she said this I hand handed my bag to the bellhop and was taking out my pen t sign the room slip. Presented with...
Please don't sweat your exams. They'll be over very soon and their CSQ (Cosmological Significance Quota) is very small. Remember Dylan Thomas and how happy he would have been to be in Cambridge today. As he nostalgically wrote to one of his friends here: "Please have a thousand boilermakers for me and send me your stomach; I'll put it under my pillow...
...cases, the President gets his way-but often not before the Senate tweaks a few noses, publicly absolves itself of future misdeeds by the appointee and throws in a few surprises. Last week the Senate looked over Richard Nixon's appointees at close range, performing its usual quota of tweaking as well as offering its own surprises...
...renewed a harsh campaign against thousands of Asian merchants in their midst. Since the majority hold British rather than local passports, black leaders in East Africa adamantly insist that the British should accept them. Britain has reacted against immigration-and its attendant demands on social services-with a new quota system, and Callaghan was hardly anxious to provoke another storm of Powellite racial tension by promising to stretch quotas...