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President Garcia, glumly watching the proceedings on television, summoned Aytona to Malacañan Palace. Aytona thought that he had Garcia's backing. He learned that he was wrong. Garcia asked him to withdraw in favor of Puyat. To soften the blow, Garcia offered repayment of Aytona's campaign expenses and, somewhat ambiguously, promised "protection" for Aytona's followers. Stunned but defiant, Aytona refused. Garcia's aides were more successful in dealing with Candidate Paredes, who, gratefully accepting $150,000 as reimbursement for his campaign expenses, stepped out of the race...
...Softening for Lather. City water supplies in the U.S. and Canada, mostly drawn from fast mountain rivers, are in general safely low in sodium. But some rivers are loaded with the stuff. The Arkansas River reaches 1,770 p.p.m. in the fall and cannot be used for drinking water. Moreover, a city's river water may be hard (because of calcium and magnesium carbonates), and housewives want it soft for washing; so the engineers soften it, often by replacing the calcium with sodium. One eminent cardiologist at a Midwestern hospital was puzzled when his heart-failure patients suddenly...
...talked formally for 30 minutes, surrounded by aides. Then Kennedy stood up from his padded wooden rocking chair, invited Gromyko to join him for a few minutes alone, and the two men stepped through the French doors into the sunny Rose Garden. There Gromyko appeared to soften, especially after Jacqueline Kennedy stopped by momentarily to greet Gromyko warmly and bid goodbye to Husband Jack before departing for Palm Beach...
...vote. No group has a right to force taxpayers to take medicine not recommended by their own doctor." Anti-fluoridation groups in other states helpfully flooded Massachusetts with leaflets implying that fluoridation causes cancer and brittle bones and hinting that its proponents are acting on orders from Moscow to soften American brains. Throughout the campaign Rosenberger kept in close telephone contact with Seattle Radiologist Frederick...
Salesmen must be wary of the husband who knows nothing about mechanics; the trick is to avoid making him look like a boob. To soften the customer who is undecided between two makes, salesmen often slyly deride the competition with such remarks as "Did you ever notice its cheesy dashboard?" In the final, crucial moments of the haggle, they will frequently try to win the customer by offering to throw in a side-view mirror or whitewalls without charge. Salesmen find that men make most of the car-buying decisions, but let wives pick color and interior. A salesman knows...