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Head Count. In contrast to the G.O.P. indignation, the Democrats were taking the latest revelations almost in stride. The wisest of them have recognized all along that in the end, it would have to be Republicans who brought Nixon down. Observed Pennsylvania Congressman William Green: "They said at the White House that the transcripts would prove the President is innocent. They don't. Instead, they incriminate him." Said Georgia Representative Jack Flynt: "I can understand, after having read them, why he didn't want to release the transcripts." Added Representative John Brademas of Indiana: "There was an extraordinary moral obtuseness...
...horses, the Derby could be an untamed affair. Lucien Laurin, trainer of the last two Derby winners, Secretariat and Riva Ridge, says that 26 horses bolting from the gate would be "a cavalry charge," with so much bumping and jostling that many horses would be knocked off stride before reaching the first turn. Laurin himself has decided not to enter Secretariat's half brother Capital Asset, an embarrassing relative which finished last in the Wood. Meanwhile, everyone else's horse van keeps arriving in Louisville...
...Said Lynn ebulliently: "It's nice to know we're all working and can finally pay the rent." · Dinner with the boss is the kind of awkward evening that wives have to learn to cope with. But Nancy Maginnes Kissinger, 39, seemed to take it in stride when she appeared at her first official White House dinner (in honor of the Latin American foreign ministers), even when the boss singled her out. Said President Nixon: "We welcome Mrs. Nancy Kissinger on her first visit as the wife of the Secretary of State." Perhaps feeling that...
...days the astronauts must also continue to eat Skylab-type prepackaged food, a teetotaling, less-than-gourmet diet that was particularly hard on Commander Carr; in space he dreamt continually of savoring his favorite cold beer while watching football on TV. The astronauts took the restrictions in stride. As they reported for their medical examinations at the Johnson Space Center, Flight Surgeon Jerry Hordinsky commented: "You would think that they were just three guys coming in for a routine blood test...
GETTY: There is no alternative. Unless you want to go back to horses, buggies or bicycles, as in China. I kind of take industrial growth and its complications in my stride. I didn't have any control over things. My life has really been like that of the soldiers in the "Light Brigade"-"Theirs not to reason why/ Theirs...