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...there has been a secret pact in the Wallace campaign between the candidate and his electorate. No matter what he says to the national media about winning scads of black votes in Alabama or accepting the law of the land, the implied message is in Wallace's wink--there is nothing to fear from the fighting judge, the Snopesian Benito Cereno who would take over the ship by crafty obeisance...
...next, Willebrands will find that Simonis' once embattled diocese has calmed down, but Gijsen's domain-where a poll shortly after his appointment showed that a vast majority of priests opposed their new bishop-is as tense as ever. In Holland some married priests continue to wink at Vatican rules and act as ministers in liberal parishes. Attendance at Mass has plummeted 50% in a decade, and in 1973 only seven diocesan priests were ordained. Willebrands has ranked high in speculation on candidates to succeed Paul VI. If he can unify the Dutch church, he might well deserve...
...recent years, no-strike clauses that ban walkouts have been written into most labor contracts, including those covering the West Virginia mines. Trouble is, when some workers strike without authorization, union officials often shrug (some critics say wink) and claim they are not responsible. Judge Hall did not buy that approach. Rapping the U.M.W. for its "feeble" efforts to halt the walkout, Hall made the fine heavy to force quick action. U.M.W. President Arnold Miller and other union leaders responded by working feverishly to get the miners back...
...subject of breasts. She sweeps aside any pretense of objectivity to quickly it doesn't even get a chance to become a full-blown pretense. She went to her tenth reunion at Wellesley she tells us just because she was writing a column for Esquire about it, but (wink) we all know why she really went--she wanted to. And similarly, she told her friends that the reason she joined a consciousness-raising group was because she didn't see how she "could write about women and the women's movement without joining a group...The disinterested observer...
...they were leaving under a new "no-marriage clause"?which meant, in effect, that in the crisis, a departing American can take his girl friend along. They, and thousands of other "endangered Vietnamese," as President Ford had referred to them, were being whisked through the lines with a wink and a free can of Fanta to drink as they waited in the blazing...