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...House decision was a severe rebuff to the Nixon Administration which had asked for $290 million for the development of two SST prototypes. President Nixon telephoned several undecided congressmen Wednesday afternoon in an attempt to insure passage of the proposal...
...will face a momentous question: Will the economic and political gains from taking a hard line against the hardhats outweigh their potent enmity in the 1972 election? Having talked so much about the need for bargaining changes, the President would lose stature with other voters if he accepted a rebuff from the unions. Now that gradual withdrawal has defused Viet Nam as a political issue, Nixon no longer needs support from the construction workers as much as he once did. And it is becoming plainer every day that inflationary wage raises for the 4% of the labor force engaged...
...public, Hughes was often seen with the stars of the day−Billie Dove, Lana Turner, Linda Darnell, Katharine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers, Ava Gardner, Ida Lupino. In private, he visited many others−young, eager, and not too prudish unknowns. Hughes called them "crows," but he feared rebuff even from them. It was the job of one of his public relations men to see that the green light was up before Hughes ever appeared on the scene. He once boasted that he had deflowered 200 virgins in Hollywood; the wonder was that he could find so many...
...exhibition of paintings removed from Boylston Hall two weeks ago because of its political content will probably not be shown at the Graduate School of Design, where it was invited after its initial rebuff...
Aside from SALT, the Soviet military surge worries U.S. and NATO defense planners because of the new flexibility it gives the Kremlin. Present Soviet military doctrine warns that the imperialists are plotting to unleash a nuclear war and stresses that the Russians must be ready to deliver "a timely rebuff to the aggressors." Despite this purposely vague formula, the Russians reject the idea of starting an unprovoked nuclear war themselves. As Sovietologist Raymond L. Garthoff, now an adviser to the U.S. delegation at SALT, pointed out in his 1966 book, Soviet Military Policy: "Communist doctrine does inject unusually strong hostility...