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Only an uphill fight against Princeton and even-money toss-ups against Yale and Columbia await Harvard as it charges through the rest of this winter's schedule
...churning is evident far beyond the cobblestoned streets and elegant town houses of Georgetown. At think tanks and campuses across the country, aspiring policymakers hopefully await the phone call that will bring the summons to power. Nowhere are nerves more frazzled than at top law firms, where Republicans leaving Government service will be recruited (or welcomed back) to fill the slots of Democrats who will be packing for Washington. Even those who are not tapped may find their positions altered. Says Joseph Rauh, a liberal Democrat who went to Washington in 1935 and stayed (he is now a civil rights...
Approximately 300 people in the United States presently await execution on death row. Recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions have paved the way for executions in many states that have revised their capital punishment laws to conform to Supreme Court guidelines. Now the Gilmore case, by suggesting that some felons may prefer death to life imprisonment, poses yet another threat to the lives of those convicted of capital offenses...
...that Dash has to say about Baker is bad, however. When the members of the committee, along with Dash and other counsel, gathered in Ervin's small, dark paneled Capitol office to await a phone call from the president, the atmosphere was tense. Ervin and Baker, says Dash, traded country-lawyer stories to entertain the others. When Talmadge jokingly asked if they should all stand up when the phone rang, Baker betrayed a slightly different character in his reply. "I suppose we should, and then all sing 'Bail to the Chief,'" Baker said...
...kick as former Vice President Hubert Humphrey checked out of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan. Three and a half weeks after an operation to remove his cancerous bladder, Humphrey said goodbye to his nurse and a crowd of well-wishers, then set off for Washington, D.C., to await election results in his campaign for a fifth Senate term. "I've had enough tests to go through 44 universities," said the Minnesotan. As for his regimen as a convalescent, bubbled Hubert: "I'll be swimming and walking, and, God only knows, I'll be talking...