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...officials to grapple with a painfully familiar topic: Viet Nam. Back in Washington, Nixon invited reporters into his office and vowed that he intended to stand behind his Supreme Court nominee, Judge Clement Haynsworth, "until he is confirmed." He accused some of the judge's critics of "vicious character assassination." Then Nixon held a two-hour meeting with congressional leaders of both parties to plead for his Administration's proposals for narcotics legislation...
...hairdressing and interior design, where a kind of "homintern" exists: a gay boss will often use his influence to help gay friends. The process is not unlike the ethnic favoritism that prevails in some companies and in big-city political machines; with a special sulky twist, it can be vicious to outsiders. Yet homosexual influence has probably been exaggerated. The homosexual cannot go too far in foisting off on others his own preferences; the public that buys the tickets or the clothes is overwhelmingly heterosexual. Genuine talent is in such demand that entrepreneurs who pass it by on the grounds...
...vital to keep this return high in an era when all divisions of the University are increasing their demands for funds. "If you take unrestricted money which is now earning interest and use it to meet operating expenses, you just increase the size of the deficit; it's a vicious circle." Wiggins says...
...Brooks also received yesterday a letter from SDS which accused his Subcommittee of "holding closed hearings precisely to prevent people from seeing the vicious purposes to which the Project will be put." The letter called the subcommittee "an academic rubber stamp for the Corporation" and ended with a "demand that [its] meetings be open and announced beforehand...
...courage. Her young life revolved around theatrical plots, murders, captures and daring escapes from gloomy castles that would have been all too improbable for fiction. What romancer, for instance, would dare to have his heroine develop the one sexual passion of her life for a vain and vicious 17-year-old popinjay, then, three months after his violent death, marry the man who had not only plotted his murder but abducted and raped her, only to end up in prison a month later, abandoned and temporarily deranged? Yet that is the actual history of Mary and her last two husbands...