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Weathermen issued increasingly urgent warnings to residents in "Tornado Alley," that vast stretch of plains lying be tween the Appalachians and the Rockies and sweeping from Georgia and Alabama up to Canada. When the storms hit in midweek, the tornado fun nels were twirling at 200 m.p.h...
...charges against him would probably be dropped. That, presumably, would also be the case if Ehrlichman pleaded guilty to one federal charge in return for testifying against the President and former White House Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman. At the moment, there is no sign of a rift be tween Nixon and Ehrlichman. Yet ultimately, Ehrlichman may be pushed into a position where he can harm the person on whom he is now counting for help - the President...
...less revealing than she pre tends to be. Most of the lovers are not named (a U.S. Senator, a White House aide), while most of the named are not lovers; not until page 241 does the au thor break the suspense by conceding "an absence of carnal knowledge be tween me and Henry [Kissinger...
There are many such barriers be tween the 85 million Americans who visit carnivals every year and the thousands of men and women who work in them. One is the carnie's feeling that society looks down upon him; even circus workers feel superior, Truzzi says, because the circus is really an extension of the theater, while carnivals spring from street fairs and gambling...
...national egotism. It need not mean the rhapsodic nonsense of The Greening of America, nor the belligerency of the brass-collar Americans. It could instead produce a new sense of reality. What is needed is a civilian DMZ, where the polarized Americans can gather, a place somewhere be tween the moral amnesia of those who would totally forget the war and those who proclaim a perpetual, self-lacerating mea culpa that would take the place of progress. Perhaps this war has bro ken the rules of history. No one can be sure. It can only be observed that in other...