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...general has doffed his bemedaled uniform for casual mufti in order to soften his military image, has abandoned droning prepared speeches for off-the-cuff talks and has even begun to enjoy the political stump. Recently, he articulately plugged Indonesia's "New Order" on a visit to the island of Sulawesi, where he wowed the natives not only by giving pithy explanations of what his government is trying to do but by donning a sarong and the peaked local headdress. Later this month, he goes off to Bali on a similar speechmaking tour...
France's five Common Market partners-all of whom publicly support British membership-tried unsuccessfully to soften the French position, but they failed. Flying to London for three days of talks with Prime Minister Wilson, West Germany's Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger offered little solace. "It would be no use banging the table," he said. "Anyone who knows President de Gaulle will understand that this would produce the opposite effect. The only way is to try to convince the French by intellectual arguments, and hope that the overwhelming weight of European public opinion will make them change their...
...Governor has reached a nadir; he is unlikely even to control the entire delegation from his own state. But Romney has been counted out before, only to stage a winning campaign. He seems determined to do so again in the primaries, and is already taking steps to soften the stiff, sanctimonious impression that he too often conveys. "He's sure trying to be one of the fellas," says an aide. "He's even using a lot more hells and damns than he used to." Even so, the newsmen who cover Romney still refer to him as "Super Square...
...position staked out by Ho Chi Minh in a letter to Johnson last February, when he categorically refused to consider talks until the U.S. "unconditionally" halted its bombing of the North and "all other acts of war." Until the 1968 presidential returns are in, Hanoi is unlikely to soften that stand...
...also the first model to have Ford's "energy-absorbing" front end, which, with a specially designed 18-in. section in the car's frame, is supposed to collapse, accordion-style, in a head-on collision, thus soften crash impact...