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Hoping to cool the nationalistic temper surrounding the bill, the State Department issued a strong formal protest; it reminded Canada that its own huge banking interests in the U.S. - including about half the lucrative Wall Street call-loan market - amount to some $1.6 bil lion and hinted at possible reprisal. The note did not find a welcome. When one high-ranking U.S. diplomat explained the U.S. position in Ottawa, he was told, "Don't be a bloody fool...
What surely will temper Reagan is the job he will take on next January. The task of running the most populous state in the Union, accommodating the 1,000 new arrivals who pour in daily, satisfying California's insatiable demands for more schools, roads, hospitals and?not least?water, demands an activist Governor. However great the momentum of past programs, the impetus of growth in such states as New York and California has invariably proved greater. Actually, though he has promised to cut back on wasteful state programs, Reagan admits that his "creative society" will not come cheap...
Nixon, campaigning in New England, kept his cool. He remarked that the President had been guilty of a "shocking display of temper" and that his attack had "broken the bipartisan line on Viet Nam policy." Bipartisanship, he went on, meant joint participation and responsibility, "not abject approval of whatever policy the President may announce...
...spent his young manhood in Venice and Rome, then moved to Toledo, where he died old, honored, contentious, debt-ridden and proud. Though the rest of the drama appears to be based on hysterical inaccuracies, the strain in Spain lies mainly in Actor Ferrer, who portrays the temper of genius with a flatness more appropriate to Toledo, Ohio. Dressed in custom-tailored smocks and tunics, Mel looks like nothing so much as a paid escort en route to the Beaux-Arts Ball...
...what usually happens to Brown is that people pass him by without a backward glance. Then, he is likely to burst into a foot-stomping temper, as he did recently at the Los Angeles County Fair, in a much-publicized incident...