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...German rebuff, on top of everything else, triggered a viscerally angry response in Washington. State Department Spokesman Robert McCloskey complained that America's friends were "trying to separate themselves from us publicly." Henry Kissinger exploded. "I don't care what happens to NATO, I'm so disgusted," the new Secretary of State reportedly said. The State Department later denied that Kissinger had used the word disgusted to describe his feelings about the Atlantic allies. Whether he did or not, disgust was clearly the official sentiment in Washington...
...Spanish Pianist Alicia de Larrocha struggled valiantly with the stiff action of a Steinway at a recital near Washington, D.C., after a local dealer's technician denied her request for a minor adjustment, insisting that the instrument was in "perfect condition." Misha Dichter, 27, still smarts from the rebuff of a tuner in St. Paul who responded to his complaint about the house piano: "Listen, young whippersnapper, Liberace played it and he liked...
Fish to Fry. The Governor first took his proposal to the legislature, where it needed a two-thirds vote in both houses to be put on the ballot in November. The bill ran into opposition from Democrats and bogged down in committee. Prepared for that rebuff, Reagan took his proposal to the public. He started a campaign to round up some 521,000 signatures needed to put the proposition on the ballot. To make the plan more palatable, he combined it with a 20% income tax credit designed to refund to the taxpayers $415 million of this fiscal year...
Ordeal. The congressional rebuff of Gray marked the biggest personal setback for President Nixon since the rejection of his appointments of Clement F. Haynsworth Jr. and G. Harrold Carswell to the Supreme Court. Nixon said that Gray had been the victim of "totally unfair innuendo and suspicion," and defended both the White House's request to see the FBI files on the Watergate case ("completely proper and necessary") and Gray's compliance. But White House rationalizations notwithstanding, Congress seemed determined to diminish partisan influence in the FBI in the future...
...most bachelors have learned, a luncheon invitation to a bright, attractive female often meets with a wary rebuff. To improve the odds for success, a group of men who claim to be the "cream of the crop" of San Francisco bachelors have banded together to attract good-looking lunch dates. They call their organization the Tuesday Downtown Operators and Observers, and they pursue their goals and girls with such single-minded fervor that the club has become something of a city institution...