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...President Nixon issued from his hospital bed. Nixon conceded: "Confidence in our management of our fiscal affairs is low, at home and abroad." As to the freeze, which the President imposed against the advice of his aides, he said: "The freeze is holding down production and creating shortages that threaten to get worse." In a feeble echo of his former self. Nixon concluded: "We should not despair of our plight...
...side the skin kings are besieged by a host of imitators who threaten to glut even a market that sometimes seems insatiable. On the other hand there is the sudden appearance of a new and stricter legal definition of obscenity by the U.S. Supreme Court (TIME, July 2). Though the boundaries of the court's ruling are still unclear, they could well halt the skin trade's race to publish ever more explicit turn-ons. If forced to retreat, the magazines might simply succeed in boring their audience...
...femininity' stunts the female identity. Men justify themselves on pride for a world they have built and conquered, and the conquered includes women. Women are born and raised members of a subordinate class in a system of sexual power that admits no equality. When successful by masculine standards they threaten men, and feel guilty for doing so. When they exchange the male oriented language of femininity' for a man's vocabulary and a man's style they trade one form of identity denial for another. And this is why the Feminism that took shape in political action, that claimed...
...Senators that I work with, and the Republicans of the state of Connecticut, and in fact the Republican Party, far better than these illegal, unconstitutional and gross acts which have been committed over the past several months by various individuals." Republicans, Weicker insisted, do not cover up, do not threaten, do not commit illegal acts and, "God knows. Republicans don't view their fellow Americans as enemies to be harassed" but rather as "human beings to be loved and won." For a few brief seconds, the room was stone silent. Then the gallery broke into the loudest and longest...
...Italy, Ireland, Portugal and Spain living costs threaten to soar as high as 12% or even 15% this year. Switzerland is bracing for 8.4% inflation this year, and West Germany will be happy to get away with 8%. To help stem a flood of inflation-feeding foreign currency into Germany, the government last week revalued the Deutsche Mark upward by 5½% against other Common Market monies, jeopardizing the prospects for European monetary union...