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Ashbrook, who has represented Ohio's rural 17th district for six terms, has been part of the conservative pantheon since 1964, when he was one of Barry Goldwater's earliest boosters. Though he has not firmly decided to run, he would plainly relish setting out on what he calls "a small Paul Revere ride" through New Hampshire, Florida and perhaps other primary states. But why would Bill Buckley's group choose an unknown to sound the conservatives' alarm? They had little choice. Quietly, Nixon has already won pledges of allegiance from all the big guns...
...profit margins. Some complain that the task seems impossible. "We have never developed a productivity measure that satisfied us over the short span," says Dean McNeal, vice president of Minneapolis' Pillsbury Co. On the other hand, Grayson, as a business school dean on leave from S.M.U., appears to relish the idea of pressuring companies into stricter cost accounting...
With obvious relish, Connally told the Japanese, who desperately want a quick solution to the international monetary crisis, that the U.S. was not responsible for delaying a settlement. He noted that he had to postpone the next meeting of the finance ministers of ten major non-Communist trading powers, a group of which he is chairman, from Nov. 22 until early December because "the European countries have had difficulty getting a common position." That remark touched a sensitive nerve in Common Market countries, which have been charging that the U.S. is dragging its feet on solving the world...
...Yorkers are disaster-prone, and they rather relish it. Muggings, burglaries, strikes and technological failures of all kinds form part of the daily news fare. A New Yorker would count the day lost if he could not regale an out-of-towner, or a friend, or himself, with some vivid tale of megalopolitan woe. The past master of this urban gallows humor is Neil Simon, and in The Prisoner of Second Avenue he has written his finest play since The Odd Couple...
Wallace's motives were all too clear. His actions, Wallace said, "will set a precedent in this state of carrying out the wishes of President Nixon." The relish with which Wallace repeatedly spoke of Nixon's "wishes" reflected Wallace's glee at catching the President...