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Presidential Press Secretary Ron Ziegler rarely loses his temper. But he lost it last week when newsmen questioned him closely about the removal of Robert H. Taylor, the head of the White House Secret Service detail, after a run-in with Nixon's Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman. Ziegler...
Throughout the decade he continued as a semi-public participant in the debate over American policy. But in retrospect, he has a strange enthusiasm for labelling his efforts failures. He describes his delinquencies as ambassador to the Soviet Union, a post he lost when that government declared him persona non...
Brautigan is incapable of successfully moving beyond his charm. He speaks with the same precise and creative tone as Buddy Glass but there is no backbone to these episodes. His lack of context limits him to musings that are Salinger's style but not his content. "A High Building In...
...An early run-in with Senate tradition came in 1959 when he attacked Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson for his autocratic rule of the Senate. Proxmire's popularity with insiders was further eroded by his penchant for paring fat Government work projects dear to the Senate's patronage heart...
So, at least for awhile, Mailer is run-in' scared. And as he runs, as he chases about "the fields of flesh and cunt," he picks up every nut and bolt he finds and throws it at us as a warning. Beware the metal fingers of the hand of technology...