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...Ford. Some even speculated that Nixon wanted to harm Ford in New Hampshire so that the ex-President could broker a deadlocked Republican convention this summer and tip the nomination to Texan John Connally, the lapsed Democrat. Whether that was true or not, it was clear that, whatever his ulterior motives, Nixon had allowed himself to be manipulated by Peking for the purposes of Chinese, and not U.S., foreign policy. Following by just 2½ months an unproductive trip to Peking by Ford and Secretary of State Kissinger, the Nixon visit had to be, as one Chinese diplomat...
Being a novelist, according to Adams, means writing stories in which "the reader should want to turn the page." When you ask him about sociological parables or allegories in Watership Down, he replies. "The book has no ulterior motive. It's simply a cliffhanger about rabbits." He admits, however, that the book was inspired by the English countryside, which he loves, in his own curious way. He denies having been influenced by the ecology movement of the past decade: I've known and loved this countryside since about 1925. And I look back to more pleasant days when there wasn...
...tenants, on a clear day, to see, if not forever, at least to New Jersey. They will be among the first residents of Olympic Tower, a complex of 230 condominiums, 19 floors of offices, exercise rooms, sauna, private dining rooms, boutiques and a block-long park with three-story ulterior waterfall, trees and two bistros that will be open to the public...
...PRIVATELY acknowledges that releasing the English 166 questions without good publicity was probably careless--but just careless and nothing more. He maintains he had no ulterior motive in mind, such as helping out Adams House residents...
...coalition's two independents, Sullivan and Russell, both oppose controls, while all four liberals support them. Councillor Francis H. Duehay '55 called Danehy's move "an attempt to break up the coalition" before the council formally votes on Corcoran's replacement, but Danehy denies any ulterior motives...