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...serious negotiations with the North Vietnamese and agrees to a political compromise in South Vietnam, he will have thoroughly nullified his own "era of negotiations." The shallow roots of friendship that he and other presidents have painstakingly established with Russia and China may well be washed away. In their stead, an accelerated arms race and the politics of confrontation will threaten man's existence
...quiet man. "Every Senator in this chamber is partly responsible for sending 50,000 young Americans to an early grave," McGovern fumed. "This chamber reeks of blood!" When Robert Kennedy was assassinated, McGovern sought to keep Bobby's antiwar supporters together by entering the race in his stead less than three weeks before the 1968 convention. Though he polled only 1461 of the 2,622 delegate votes, the effort gave McGovern the presidential...
...does, and the brew is not only heady but true, not only true but important. It makes us feel again, in a modern context, what the wicked have always known: that there is no God, and that the men who rule the earth in his stead are those with the biggest compensating pictures of themselves...
...never before, female biology and sexuality are being used as raw material for fiction. The trend did not appear overnight. Among the lonely precursors of the new irate accent in fiction was Christina Stead...
Smith, 25, has even learned a new skill: journalism. He writes a tennis column for the Washington Evening Star Syndicate. But even before his military service, he had another nontennis talent that will stand him in good stead when his Army tour ends this December: he is a business and finance graduate of the University of Southern California. At least one big businessman already keen to hire him is PepsiCo's Chairman Don Kendall, with whom Smith signed an endorsement contract last year...