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...store-bought chocolate cake with 56 candles. Pat gave him a pair of cuff links -"All his cuff links were torn off in the campaign," she explained. There were ties, socks and handkerchiefs from Tricia, and from his staff a small bronze statue of an Irish setter in token of the dog they plan to buy him. The Nixon White House menagerie will also include Blanco, a dog left by the Johnsons because it does not like Texas, a Yorkshire terrier called Pasha, and Vicky, a French poodle...
...gadfly to his country's conscience, he espoused a variety of socialism that was questioning rather than doctrinaire, Christian rather than Marxist, democratic rather than totalitarian. Much of what he sought in social welfare legislation was eventually adopted by those who once recoiled from his proposals. "The ultimate token of approval," he said with rueful satisfaction, "is that the Democrats and Republicans have stolen my thunder." Son of a Presbyterian minister, valedictorian of Princeton's class of 1905, six times Socialist candidate for President of the U.S., Norman Mattoon Thomas made an his toric mark. He died...
...conclusion that the television networks--in particular NBC and CBS--had not been fair in reporting the events in Chicago.... Needless to say, it was not the role of television to side with the officials of the City of Chicago or the Chicago Police Department.... But, by the same token, it was not the role of television to be the ideological allies of the mob. It was not television's role to slant the news day after day in favor of the revolutionaries and against the elected representatives of the people and the police...
...mandatory controls on foreign investment "as soon as possible." That raised the specter of a precipitate outpouring of investment funds abroad and prompted Treasury Under Secretary Frederick L. Deming, a key member of L.B.J.'s economic team, to call the proposal "the height of irresponsibility." By the same token, supporters of the Johnson Administration's free-trade policies have been concerned about intimations by Nixon's aides that the U.S. might adopt a more protectionist attitude toward some imported goods, including Japanese textiles and Canadian auto parts. Nonetheless, European businessmen and moneymen, while also worried about...
...member of the Judicial Committee of the House of Lords describe the bitter lawsuit involving Maria Callas and two Greek shipowners, Aristotle Onassis and Panaghis Vergottis. At stake was 51% of the shares in a $3,000,000 freighter that Maria said the men had given her as a token of friendship that was to provide for her old age. Onassis never questioned his part of the deal, but Vergottis denied all, and has spent H years fighting the case through British courts. Maria's ship finally came in. Vergottis lost his last appeal, and the disputed shares...