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...gaining," admits Democratic National Chairman Robert Strauss, but he also believes that Ford's policy decisions are wrong. This view is enthusiastically shared by Presidential Candidate Henry Jackson, who is convinced that higher utility costs may soon wipe out the new veneer of good will for Ford. "You're not going to beat him with a more honest, more honorable man," says Strauss. "You're going to beat him on the issues...
...water, there are so many logs and it has a dozen hangars where the finished product is stored. It takes about fifteen minutes for a twenty-foot log to be stripped of its bark, clamped into the peeling machine, and transformed into a few hundred feet of "veneer," one-quarter to one-eighth of an inch thick. The veneer is baked, tested, sewn together if it breaks, doused with glue, and stamped in one of five thirty-foot high presses, the biggest of which was "Made in Oregon." Official colonialism may be ten years dead, but suspicions of economic imperialism...
...economic behavior of the Jews. Many scholars have seen it as an anti-Semitic tract. To Cuddihy, on the contrary, it is a description of the Jew as the universal capitalist whose "worldly God" is money. The Gentile capitalists worshiped the same God, except that they affected a veneer of civility as "a figleaf for the cash nexus ... The civilities are a kind of games goyim [Gentiles] play...
Unkind Cut. "Underneath the imitation-oak-grained formica veneer is solid oak, beneath that phony image of character is character," writes Safire. But what is the nature of that character? He never succeeds in defining it. Perhaps there never was anything cohesive in Nixon's character. Perhaps Safire is simply too compassionate to label it. Such ambiguity of approach may partly explain why Safire's original publisher, William Morrow & Co., rejected his manuscript as unsatisfactory (the author lost his suit to recover all of a promised $250,000 advance, settling for $83,000). Still, Safire offers lively anecdotes...
...Saturday morning's discussion of procedural rules, the conference's veneer of harmony is shattered. The charge surfaces that the conference has been packed by the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) and their youth wing, the Young Socialists Alliance (YSA). "The black community was not involved in the organization of this conference," asserts Vivien Morris '75, a member of a coalition of black and third-world groups. However, most of the people favor the conference's set-up. By the time the plenary session is adjourned, the tone of the conference has been set. The debates are long and boring...