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...enmeshing the superpowers, became all too apparent. However distant and as yet only indirectly involving the U.S., the war between Israel and its Arab neighbors could hold greater peril for Americans 14 than The School for Scandal drama unreeling in Washington. Public reaction to the fighting was more solemn and subdued-and notably less partisan-than during the quick Israeli triumph of 1967, when even the most disinterested observer had to admire that small country's masterful military effort. This time fear and reluctance about involvement were far stronger. The so-far inconclusive struggle upset and troubled Israel...
...fighting started on the Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur, the most solemn moment in the Jewish religious year, and it continued beyond Sukkoth, the Feast of Tabernacles, when Jews traditionally celebrate Moses' passage through the Sinai desert 3,300 years...
...however, relate one of the few lighthearted tricks of the campaign. He said he had offered a University of Florida coed $20 to run naked past a hotel where Muskie was staying and to shout: "Muskie, I love you!" To his surprise, she did so. Quipped the normally solemn Senator Joseph Montoya: "You must have known the young lady quite well." Replied Kelly: "Unfortunately...
...bald, cautious and professorial. He has earned no great prestige within his profession or even within his specialty. He is so nondescript, in fact, that his rather solemn-minded boss, U.S. Attorney General Elliot Richardson, seems positively charismatic by comparison. But if Assistant Attorney General Thomas E. Kauper (pronounced koy-per), 38, does not look like a tiger, he is beginning to act like one. In an Administration that has become all too cozy with big businessmen seeking influence, the chief of the Justice Department's antitrust division has kept up steady pressure against monopolistic practices−including some...
Under the solemn oak trees of Camp David, a profoundly troubled man spent much of the weekend walking on quiet paths, looking out over the Catoctin Mountains, and thinking about what to say to a disturbed nation. Observed an aide: "I don't know what he's going to say, or how he is going to say it, soft or hard, pleadingly or abrasively...