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...good WYF was ther, Mr. Mitchell's owne, Wel koude she carp upon hir telephone. She lyk to tel the papers, quote-unquote: "Dorst noon can mak myn housband a scapegoate...
ULASEWICZ ther also was, forsooth, Koud wel hide gold in any olde phone booth. Koud gette Hernya (shold watch hys steppen). From so much hevy laundry bags y-schleppen...
...afraid to show its face. Political candidates no longer employ the folk idiom in their speeches. Humorists rarely use the short, acute idiom of Lincoln, Twain - or a Hoosier caricaturist named Kin Hubbard. A pity. In the voice of Abe Martin, a wise old rustic, Hubbard once cracked: "Ther's some folks standin' behind the President that ought t' git around where he kin watch'em." No matter how informed its consultants, how great its G.N.P., a country without that kind of wit is an underprivileged nation. That's only common sense...
...those operations, he claimed, were aimed at detecting just who in the Government was leaking official secrets to newsmen, or at protecting the Government against antiwar demonstrators, radical bomb-throwers and black extremists. Nixon is still worried, he said, that the Wa tergate investigations will "lead to fur ther compromise of sensitive national security information...
Later that day, Maya, Claude and Paloma drove to Vauvenargues and placed a large wreath of vivid flowers in the cemetery overlooking the chateau. "That was as close to our fa ther as we could get," Maya said. "It's sad. The whole situation is very delicate." The next day, Paulo's son Pablo, 24, of nearby Golfe-Juan, was reported in serious condition after drinking a bottle of chloric acid. According to his mother (who has long been separated from Paulo), Pablo had been despondent about being kept from seeing his grandfather. Others said he had also...