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Compliments to Mrs. Carter. I am Sir with high reguard for your charec-tor Yr. Most Obedient servant...
...great many of these letters consist of a kind of British banterchatter. The author of the shimmeringly exquisite Waves, writing to her artist-sister Vanessa Bell, natters on endlessly about the servant problem, her dog Shot, the difficulties of choosing chair covers, the advisability of drinking plenty of milk, and the jolly monotony of life in the Sussex country ("Leonard caught two moles this morning"). Deeper feelings blurt through only in a sentence here and there ("Nothing except painting and writing is really interesting nothing can be quite so important as child bearing"). Such revelations are surrounded like desert islands...
...Ford mastered the art of parliamentary sleight of hand, allowing him to claim that he had voted for final passage of every major piece of civil rights legislation, and simultaneously that he had fought to stop each piece of civil rights legislation until the final vote. As Nixon's servant in the House, Ford strongly denied ever having known of an American president providing false or deceptive information. In fact, he had already been privately briefed on Nixon's secret bombing of Cambodia, a policy the administration was publicly denying...
...quarters of the Transkei's annual operating budget is contributed by South Africa, and 70% of its national income consists of remittances from members of the Xhosa tribe who work "abroad"-in the mines, factories and farms of white South Africa -as migrant laborers. Admits a black civil servant in one of Umtata's new government office buildings, "We are like a puppet show, with the whites pulling the strings as we dance to their tune...
...York Daily News's Gerald Nachman jests that Carter has also given an interview to Penthouse, admitting that the candidate "not only coveted his neighbor's wife but also his house, his servant, his ass and his ox," and that he took the Lord's name in vain four times while in the Navy. "Well, nobody's perfect," Nachman imagines Carter explaining, "but sometimes I come pretty doggone close." Chicago Daily News Columnist Mike Royko has an admission of his own about hust on the lustings: "I, too, have looked at women with lust. While wearing...