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Rockefeller's prospects were buffeted briefly by a bizarre report, mentioned by Columnist Jack Anderson last week, alleging that Rockefeller money had been used to finance a "standby" group of "toughs" to disrupt the 1972 Democratic National Convention. The shenanigans were supposedly described in papers contained within seven mysterious...
In Moscow the bands were once again rehearsing that old standby, The Star-Spangled Banner, and those familiar little red-white-and-blue flags were once again being pulled out for street decorations. Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger were on their way for this week's meeting with Soviet Party...
Other sorts of trouble are coming to paradise, it appears. Those magical Scottish names, the cleek, and the spoon, the baffy and of course that old standby the mashie niblick, says Wodehouse, are about to become as rare-not to say mythological-as Scottish golfing champions themselves. It is rumored...
At present, the handicapped would fare no better if the Federal Energy Office orders nationwide gas rationing under its current standby rationing plan. All drivers living in the New York area, for example, would get 33 to 40 gal. per month, though the Paralyzed Veterans of America Inc. figures that...
More Austere. The Pentagon does have more capability of increasing supplies than civilian businesses do. Indeed, nearly half the deficiency caused by the Arab embargo can be made up by tapping the naval reserves at Elk Hills. Calif. The field's current output of 5,000 bbl. a day...