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...would look strange to cancel his TV broadcast at the last minute without explanation. Nixon added that he would be willing to call off the telecast if Morhouse insisted but would have to explain publicly just why. The point: loyal G.O.P. voters in upstate New York might well resent the cancellation, not to mention the slight to national party unity. Morhouse hurriedly called back to say go ahead with the telecast. Right on schedule, Nixon delivered his TV speech-which even stony-hearted critics ruled as the best of his political career...
...weeding out the occasional poison-pen letters from over-zealous Callas fans), took care of her clothes and costumes, stationed herself in the wings to minister to Renata with a Thermos jug of warm tea and an emergency flask of brandy when she came offstage. She was quick to resent any affronts to her daughter. Backstage lore has it that she once berated a tenor for holding the high B-flat in the love duet at the end of the second act of Andrea Chenier an instant longer than Renata did. Before every performance she used to join Renata...
...Office of the Dean of Students, it is pointed out that Bethlehem juveniles sometimes resent Lehigh freshmen who "come in and pick off the girls and take them to dances." But these youthful machinations are a minor matter, and it seems that the only apparent town-gown problem which concerns the University is that of the off-campus fraternities...
...resent the implication by certain liberal ministers that it is un-Christian to oppose integration. We believe that integration is contrary to the will of God ... is based on a false theory of the 'universal fatherhood of God and the universal brotherhood of man.' We believe that integration is not only unChristian, but that it violates all sound sociological principles and is not supported by Scripture or by biological facts...
Trouble was that European enthusiasm found few echoes among the Arabs themselves; they might not have found much to resent, but still they would not cheer. Lebanon's usually pro-Western Al-Jarida complained that Ike had not addressed himself to "the basic problem of the Arab world"-Israel. The most hopeful thing a New York Times correspondent could find to say about Egyptian press comment was that it was "only slightly abusive...