Word: bobbed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Judge John J. Sirica last week presided over the "last major decision I'll have to render in this long, difficult case." Having sentenced 17 Watergaters to prison terms, Sirica was ruling on petitions for leniency from the only ones who are still imprisoned-John Mitchell, H.R. (Bob) Haldeman and John Ehrlichman. At their trial, tape-recorded conversations in the Oval Office had sealed their convictions. Now the three were seeking to persuade Sirica-by means of taped statements of contrition that the judge had requested-to reduce their sentences. The result: their 2½-to-8 year terms...
...last August-after an eleven-year legal battle -Meyer launched a personal lobbying campaign. Contending that he was acting as a private citizen, he urged members of Congress and White House aides to exempt the Imperial Valley from the big sell-off Last week President Carter ordered Agriculture Secretary Bob Bergland to rein in his deputy fast...
...Club Band. A new comedy film, Oh, God!, featuring Burns in the title role, has just opened. Last week the active octogenarian paused long enough to drop into the Beverly Hilton hotel and accept the first annual Jack Benny Memorial Award from the March of Dimes. While Ann-Margret, Bob Hope and some 700 others at the $125-a-plate fund raiser looked on, Frank Sinatra presented Burns with his newest trophy: a large but empty humidor. "The award will keep Jack's memory alive," promised George. "And it'll keep me alive. I can put enough cigars...
Halas's theft was the Crimson's third. Steve Potysman, who played a great game at cornerback, accounted for one in the third quarter, and Bob Baggott's weekly turnover, a Lou Piniella grab in the second that set up the Crimson's third score, represented the other...
Harvard's brightest hopes to break Dartmouth's domination lay at the A level, but a knee injury to Crimson co-captain Bob Wilsterman early in the game dimmed those hopes...