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...Nashville papers ridiculed the first issue when it was published, and the Chancellor of the University refused to subscribe to it. I think Radcliffe Squires (Tate's biographer) makes a rather amusing remark about that. He says, 'Looking at the first issue, one wonders why anybody expected anything of these people...
Behind the smiles and easy badinage, however, Connally projects an icy, faintly bullying power that compels attention. His demands can be overwhelming. In a widely remembered remark about U.S. international trade and monetary goals. Connally summed up his position: "All I want is a fair advantage." He is a bad loser. Says one Texas politician who has been up against him: "He is totally unforgiving of his political enemies. He'll carry his grudges to the grave. He can also be tenacious as hell, clawing and pushing his way past any obstacle." Connally is no less ambitious than Johnson...
Sunday, Bloody Sunday has a rare tension to it. When a character makes a snide remark and swallows it, the line is laughed at and the laugh is clutched. If pathos is evoked, the film's essential rationality beckons us to retreat, without regret, to a world of traffic lights, vandalsim and economic crises--the world of our daily survival. If the film's philosophic viewpoint does not satisfy us completely, it is a measure of the film's quality that we take it seriously enough to judge it by our own lives--as we do with the best...
...commission's interim report dated July 1, 1971 makes no reference to the mayor. The quoted statement must refer to a press conference remark made by me-speaking for myself and not the commission-relating to the ultimate responsibilities of the city's chief executive officer. The mayor immediately concurred with my observations, affirming his responsibility for every agency of the city government...
...Tokyo forced Ike to turn back. Initially, the plans for the Emperor's tour called for no presidential appearance at Anchorage. Tentatively, Mrs. Nixon or Julie and David Eisenhower were being considered to meet the royal couple; even Vice President Agnew was a possibility, despite his famous "Fat Jap" remark made during the 1968 campaign about a newsman from the Baltimore...