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...been criticizing the policies and personnel of the Nixon Administration and has been putting plenty of distance between himself and the White House. "Now," he says, "when people hi my district talk about Watergate, I'm wholly divorced from it. There's no way they can wrap Watergate around my neck...
...outstanding effort in the 200 fly and on Brumwell and Fullerton sweeping the 200 breast. Neville will have to repeat his 50 free performance in the 100 free and Harvard will have to outclass the rest of the East in the 400 free relay, the last event, to wrap up a meet victory...
Middle distance man Bill Okerman, progressing at each outing, will wrap up the indoor season against the Northeast's top 1000-yard runners. Okerman's top competition is likely to be Boston College's Keith Francis...
...destruction: countless masterpieces of the weaver's art were burned during the French Revolution to render down their gold and silver threads. Others, seen as emblems of monarchical privilege, were simply destroyed. The Met's own Unicorn tapestries were taken by peasants and used to wrap potatoes. Even the Angers Apocalypse served as burlap to insulate orange trees and stuff cracks in walls. This exhibition is only a fragment of what Europe lost...
...publisher of the Long Island newspaper Newsday (1967-70) and author of the 1971 book Listening to America. The most engaging and refreshing thing about him is that, at 39, he regards himself as he does the nation - as open and unfinished - and is not yet ready to wrap himself in the cellophane of self-esteem and present himself as a finished media product...