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...With Relish. Wallace replied shrewdly. He decreed that a 15-year-old suburban Birmingham white student, Pamela Davis, should be assigned by the Jefferson County school board to the predominantly white Minor High School. Under a federal court order, Pamela had been assigned to Westfield High School, 22 miles from her home and 95% black. One day later, Wallace pressed the issue further by proclaiming his intention to reopen one of the 140 all-black or largely black schools that had been shut down in compliance with a court ruling. "My order transcends the orders of the court," he snapped...
...chief spokesman for the Administration's harsh line during the 1970 elections, Agnew took the fight to the Democrats-and to errant Republican Charles Goodell of New York-with speeches crafted by White House ghostwriters and a relish reminiscent of an earlier Richard Nixon. His performance ran according to plan, but the results did not; in the postmortem, Agnew received a good deal of the blame for the Republicans' relatively poor showing. For once, Agnew staff members agreed with his critics in the press: the responsibility, they insist, belongs to some of the same White House types...
...there when he hooks up with Erin, a delectable, thoroughly greened girl hitchhiker. In their sexual encounters they are more playful than passionate: getting there is more important, and more fun, than making it. Drinking in the natural and human wonders that pass their way, Ogden and Erin relish a dream that neither they nor Smith believe could-or should-last too long: a second adolescence enriched by the experience of adulthood...
...last week boycotted economic conferences with Taiwan, and five Japanese shipping lines decided to stop serving Chiang Kai-shek's island. Although two-way trade with Peking was less last year than with Taiwan ($825 million v. $955 million), it is a rare Japanese businessman who does not relish the prospect of 800 million potential consumers...
...Higgins is a B-grade writer with a weakness for overstretched metaphor: "Her dentures clattered like castanets on crusts of French bread," for example, or "popping back on her feet like a piece of bread from a toaster." He does have a fine ear for dialogue and a relish for tattletales that make Madame entertaining bathtub reading. If someone would do him the favor of stealing his dog-eared thesaurus, he might even make a good gossip columnist. ·Gerald Clarke