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...Vice President, she has presided at Cabinet meetings and sessions of the Argentine Senate, now speaking out boldly instead of whispering shyly as she used to do, thus confusing her early audiences. On the stump to support Perón's "social pact" economic program, she lashed out at black marketeers and hoarders. Last month, with a hairdresser and assistant hairdresser in tow, she made state visits to Spain's Generalissimo Francisco Franco and the Pope...
...gavel for the 1972 G.O.P. National Convention. But Richard Nixon may be the last President to receive a chip off the old block. On a recent stormy evening, the mightiest remaining oak was struck by lightning. All that is left of its splendor is a jagged 15-ft.-high stump...
...admits. Sometimes he must choose between black solidarity and his own best judgment. Example: the county Democratic committee "had to endorse a black for the county commission even though there was a Jewish fellow who was the better candidate. If we blacks on the commission had taken the stump for the Jewish fellow, we would have been vilified as Uncle Toms...
Seriously, the South isn't all cheerleaders, good ole boys and Baptist deacons, as you so richly imply. There is a new generation of Southern adults that well know how to discern a gator from a stump. You know, we've seen a good many gators down here. We just stay home when Nixon brings his carpetbags to town...
...Stump Speeches. For nearly two months, political leaders had turned from Italy's problems-social unrest, a 14.3% annual rate of inflation, and a possible $12 billion balance of payments deficit-while they stumped the country making fiery speeches for or against divorce. Former Premier Amintore Fanfani, boss of the Christian Democratic Party, led the fight for repeal, pleading with voters to save the "integrity of the family and future of our children." Communist Party Chief Enrico Berlinguer countered that divorce was "just and unexpendable...