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...Kissinger wit can always be counted on. As a guest speaker at the Washington Press Club's annual congressional dinner last week, Kissinger mocked his reputation as a secret swinger. Noting that Gloria Steinem had said that she "is not now and never has been a girl friend" of his, Kissinger declared that he was not discouraged. "After all, she did not say that if nominated she would not accept, or if elected she would not serve...
...very apt to marry one." Once he even confided: "It's astonishing, you know. These starlets I go out with aren't even sexy." In a burst of envious outrage, Manhattan's Village Voice accused Kissinger of being a secret square posing as a swinger...
...exciting, and in tune with whatever is in." There is, for example, the Rev. Leroy of the Church of What's Happening Now. The Rev, as Flip calls him, is a hot-gospeling preacher whose collection cup runneth over-into his pockets. There is Freddy the Playboy, the swinger with a quick eye for an ebony leg and an even quicker line of honeyed jive. There is Sonny, the White House janitor, Henry Kissinger's Doppelganger and the only sane voice in the Washington Establishment...
...Anglo-American myths holds that athletics build character. Competition on the playing field, so the theory goes, breeds the kind of citizens required by a competitive society: physically tough, brave, aggressive and disciplined. That thesis has lost much currency in recent years, partly because of the semiprivate life of Swinger Joe Namath and the locker-room exposes of such ex-jock authors as Jim Bouton and Dave Meggyesy...
THERE was more than a little skepticism last spring when U.S. Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird announced that the Soviets "have a new swing-wing bomber under development" with "intercontinental range capability." Cynics pooh-poohed the "Big Swinger" as a propaganda ploy for the Air Force, which was trying to convince Congress that the U.S. should go ahead with the development of its own swing-wing supersonic bomber, the B1. But the doubts have proved unjustified. The new Soviet strategic bomber, officially designated "Backfire" by NATO, has been spotted and tracked during a number of test flights from the Ramenskoye...