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Nessen said he questions whether or not his personality traits suited him for the job with Ford because he said he is "thin-skinned and short-tempered," adding that "the role of the press secretary is to be a lightening rod, to soak up criticism that would otherwise go to the president...
...cold soak" also plagued the Midwest's farmers. Near Mount Vernon, Iowa, Gordon Neal discovered that the frost had penetrated an astonishing 6 ft. into the soil, freezing his water line for the first time since it was installed at the turn of the century. His silage pile was unusable, frozen rock-solid; he was forced to feed his cattle scarce hay. Following an extended drought, the freeze endangered the winter wheat crop throughout the Midwest...
...Phillips, who wrote the story, reports that almost every January since 1967 she has settled down "in front of the biggest color TV in the neighborhood" to soak up the Super Bowl extravaganza. (She missed seeing only one-but listened to it over the radio in the Tan Son Nhut Air Base cafeteria in South Viet Nam.) Football has been a part of her life since the days when her older brother had dreams of becoming another Johnny Unitas. "He learned to pass with me as the receiver," she remembers with a smile. "I chased badly thrown footballs...
Dave sits in the last booth of the Rendezvous Restaurant at 1:30 in the morning with two giddy fellow Lowellians, and he orders the first of three pepper and onion pizzas which they will share to soak up the too-many-to-count scotches, beers, and black Russians they have downed sans cesse for the past five hours. To the accompaniment of pinball machine clangs from behind and top-decibel profanity emanating from the booth in front, he explains his daily, or rather, nightly alcoholic binges...
...confining are socialist Sweden's soak-the-rich laws that trying to make it big in business is about as difficult as trying to hit a home run inside a telephone booth. Yet it can be done. The most dramatic proof is Anders Wall, 45, president of Stockholm-based Beijerinvest and the fastest-rising star in the Swedish corporate world. During the past decade, Wall, through a shrewdly calculated program of acquisitions, has built his company from a small trading firm into a conglomerate embracing 50 trading and manufacturing concerns that turn out goods as diverse as beer, rolling...