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Muskie? If he couldn't handle that guy Loeb, what will he do when he's really in trouble. He knew Loeb; he's lived next door. I'd have liked it better if he'd gone to Loeb's house, rung the bell and whacked him in the nose...
Last October while I was in London I talked to my aunt on the telephone. A week or so earlier my grandmother had rung for Mrs. Aslett to ask when exactly she was planning to quit working full-time. Mrs. Aslett seemed to shrink even smaller, and replied, "Well, Lady Dyson...
...sedate hearing room of the Senate Judiciary Committee had rarely rung with such harsh language. Columnist Jack Anderson was pressing his charges that the Nixon Administration had settled antitrust suits against the giant ITT Corp. in return for up to $400,000 in backing to bring the Republican National Convention to San Diego (TIME, March 13). As the second week of tense testimony unfolded, Republican officials were still on the defensive. The Administration had requested the hearings, hoping to dispel quickly any whiff of a deal. Thus far it had failed, and gleeful Democrats were only too happy to prolong...
...Busy Becky the Handi Helper, programmed in much the same way, comes with twelve housekeeping accessories. Shoppin' Sheryl pushes a shopping cart, reaches out with a magnetized "Magic Hand" to pluck items off shelves, then pays at what is labeled a Motorized CheckOut Counter after the sale is rung up on a Ringing Cash Register. Surely an Overdrawn Bank Account is in the works somewhere...
...real heavy like Moakley"--John Moakley, the congressman who lost to Louise Day Hicks last year, had led the ballotting all night in his first try for City Council--"you're not going to do very well. It's the same with the black areas. We could have rung every doorbell and we still wouldn't have done any better than we would have just by doing the subway stations. That's why you have to play to your strength...