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...soothed and quiet. Except for the death and destruction wrought by Hurricane Camille, as summer drew to an end the nation basked in unwonted and unfamiliar calm. In California, President Nixon golfed and tended to minor matters of state with equal equanimity. The nation found solace in the reassuring trivia of routine. President and people took their cue from one another; each appeared to turn aside from grave national concerns to private delights of leisure. While it was scarcely the best of all possible worlds that Voltaire's caricature philosopher Pangloss envisioned, Americans were heeding Candide's advice...
...demanding paper work comes to San Clemente. Inevitably, however, the President's pace is more selective than when he is in Washington, enabling him to put off some things until tomorrow that might have had to be done today in White House East. And much of the Washington trivia that nibbles at a President's hours is absent: no poster babies, cotton queens or service awards to worry about...
...column carries the usual trivia about Who Wore What to Whose Party. Although many of her trade items intrigue only insiders, they reflect professional savvy. Above all, she publishes tidbits about twosomes (or threesomes or foursomes) that even today's permissive society still finds at least mildly tantalizing...
...Your writer etched Ethel Kennedy's many-faceted character with great care, pointing out the trivia, triumphs and tragedies of her rich life. Missing only was a reference to a personal relationship with the late Dr. Martin Luther King. Politically and psychologically, the two families had much in common, with sudden death to both fathers and husbands forming some kind of emotional tie. Thanks again for an excellent study of a complex, beautiful woman told by a writer who shows the rarest of gifts: loving concern for his subject...
...prisoners won by a score of 170-90. Jody Adams '69, the Radcliffe team's captain, said, "We were all right on trivia, literature, and current events, but when it came to history science, and sports, they overwhelmed...