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...first Western observers thought that the Saigon government and the Communists were merely trying to improve their defenses and straighten the boundary lines of areas they controlled on the day the cease-fire went into effect. It is now apparent that both sides are violating the Paris Accords and are determined to extend their holdings significantly. Saigon's air force has been flying up to 100 sorties daily, many of them against targets in those parts of Tay Ninh and Pleiku provinces that were accorded to the Communists by the cease-fire agreement. In sections of Chuong Thien province...
...Means, Democratic Representative Al Ullman, fully agreed. "I don't believe that these are serious suggestions," said Ullman. "They are a trial balloon and a weak one." He added that they would fall on "deaf ears in the committee." Congress is in the process of trying to straighten out its own budget procedures, said Ullman, and is in no mood to deal with "willy-nilly suggestions from downtown." Nor is it at all anxious to add to presidential power, however much economic sense Nixon's ideas might make. Thus for all the angry words, bruised feelings and wily...
This winter Annemarie has not only made the competition nervous, but she has nearly demolished it. Her friends call her style "brutal." She stays in her patented crouch through her entire run. More prudent racers straighten up from time to time-at the cost of a fraction of a second-as emergencies dictate. Proell disdains such caution and her total abandon has already won her two World Cups. She is assured of a third before the spring thaw. This season she won all eight women's downhill races, becoming the world's first skier-male or female...
...social workers try to separate him from his twelve-year-old prodigy you have a play. Murray lives out one long and harmless fantasy of spontaneity and irreverence--everybody's fantasy of telling the straights where to go. None of the other characters in the drama can try to "straighten him out" (and in a certain way he needs it) without envying him and somehow loving...
...really worried after falling behind two to one in games," Howard said. "But during the intermission I talked with Perla Hewes [the coordinator of the Radcliffe squash program] and she helped me settle down and straighten my game...