Word: trickyness
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At the same time, he denounced student radicals. "If the younger generation are that 100,000 kids that lay around a field up in Woodstock," he groused, "1 am not going to trust the destiny of the country to that group." With that, Meany and some 70 other labor leaders...
At first it seemed a profitable political stroke, for it would surely please Southerners reluctant to desegregate. But he left an opening to the right, and inevitably Alabama Governor George Wallace-the man Nixon hoped to undercut-was quick to take full advantage of it. Wallace pounced last week, sending...
For all the technological help at his disposal, the job was unusually tricky. Because radio signals travel at the speed of light-186,000 miles per second -Fendell's commands took 1.8 seconds to reach the camera. Another three seconds elapsed before the image arrived back in Houston (the...
Tricky Politician. Barry Goldwater guardedly endorsed Nixon's trip, but scattered voices on the far right decried Nixon's approach to Chinese Communists. Republican Congressman John Schmitz, who represents Nixon's home district in California, had been invited to cruise the Potomac aboard the presidential yacht Sequoia...
Here the disease is not venereal but spiritual. Its scarlet lettermen are types rather than individuals, traced from undergraduate days to their adulterous 40s. Nichols opens with a series of kinetically hilarious sketches, starring Campus Smoothie Jonathan (Jack Nicholson) and his pre-med buddy Sandy (Arthur Garfunkel). Cinematically, Nichols has...