Word: wiring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...DECADES OF GROWING U.S. INVOLVEMENT Was followed by six pages of deliberately low-key prose and column after gray column of official cables, memorandums and position papers. The mass of material seemed to repel readers and even other newsmen. Nearly a day went by before the networks and wire services took note. The first White House reaction was to refrain from comment so as not to give the series any greater "exposure." But when Attorney General John Mitchell charged that the Times's disclosures would cause "irreparable injury to the defense of the United States" and obtained a temporary restraining...
George Cutler, for instance, described his life as "A Complete Flop." Joseph Bransten wrote that his "business career has been one of complete nepotism." I would particularly like to meet the class's most flamboyant live wire, Serge Daniloff, who wrote...
...waters off South Viet Nam. One could almost hear a great cry of "Aha!" rise up from all those people who have known all along that the Viet Nam War must be a plot of American capitalists. The great oil bonanza was soon deflated; among other things, a wire service had made a mistake in a figure, and 4,000,000 bbl. had become 400 million. Except to the farthest-out, craziest left, U.S. business really is not a satisfactory Viet Nam villain; it is not easy to name many American corporations that have been getting much good...
...than a mile. Avila, who rode high in the irons trying to conserve his mount, said later: "I just couldn't hold him back." Then rounding the final turn, the challengers came on. Pass Catcher, a 30-to-l shot, broke through and battled Jim French to the wire to win by three-fourths of a length. A tired Cañonero faded to fourth behind Bold Reason. Afterward, a disconsolate Arias said that Cañonero was "only 75%" of his old self. "I will bet my head that he is the best horse." To the many fans...
...parallel to John of the Cross (author of The Dark Night of the Soul), Berrigan assigns himself the literary priest's ancient task: accounting for "one man's spiritual journey." It is a very special journey, however. He is performing his walk, he suggests, as a "high-wire act" stretched between contemporary politics and Catholic tradition, explaining his actions to God, the Church and himself...