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Friendly Terms. Challenger Ford, ranking G.O.P. expert on military appropriations and chairman of the House Republican Conference (caucus), has worked closely and on friendly terms with Halleck. He is only slightly less conservative than Halleck. He admires the tough old rooster's capacity for combat. But he, like many other House Republicans, feels that Halleck presents a party image too much in the negative spirit of Goldwaterism...
...piously shoot to miss, but it is considered highly bad form to wear the amulet into a bordello. And though Vientiane's whisky-tippling set often honors Buddha's fourth rule more in spirits than in spirit, at least their chauffeurs use only the softest tail feathers of a rooster to dust the Mercedes-so as to avoid crushing the least ant, who could well be somebody's mother...
...roaming around the country saying what a terrible thing the Government is. He seems to be running against the office of President instead of for the office of Presdent. Somebody better tell him that most Americans are not ready to trade the American Eagle in for a plucked banty rooster!" "Forgive Them." In Northern New Jersey, Johnson proclaimed that the American people "are weary of those who preach that America is failing in the world and faltering at home. The people are tired of being told that their character is in question, that their moral fiber is riddled with...
...lure 1,000 immigrant families from the homeland, as well as 500 more from Mozambique itself. Each new farmer will receive up to 25 acres of irrigated land, a new house, furniture and tools, as well as two bullocks, a milk cow, two pigs, five chickens and a rooster. The 14-village project serves two purposes: it takes the pressure off the government at home, where poverty and discontent are mounting, and it strengthens Mozambique's white population against the day when the "freedom fighters" decide to move...
...After reading your cover story, my wife concluded that I'm a rooster...