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...weeks earlier, Democratic Senator Joseph Montoya of New Mexico had made the same wiretapping charge at a little-reported political dinner in Denver. But this time the accusation came in the House chamber from a top Democratic leader, and the Administration responded quickly and categorically. Attorney General John Mitchell took time during a Florida vacation to deny charges of wiretapping. Deputy Attorney General Richard Kleindienst followed with a slightly veiled attack on Boggs' drinking problem and emotional instability in the past. Kleindienst said Boggs was "sick, or not in possession of his faculties." But reporters who questioned Boggs after...
When the roll call began in a hushed and crowded chamber, opponents of the SST proceeded slowly in the hope that one of their number, Indiana Democrat Birch Bayh, could return in time from a Colorado skiing trip, which he had recklessly extended to the day of the vote. Slowed by icy roads, Bayh missed a flight-and the roll call...
...Santa Barbara, Calif., Chamber of Commerce does not include Sanford Darling's home on its tour of local attractions, but perhaps it should. TIME Correspondent Timothy Tyler visited Darling's small frame house on Rancheria Street. His report...
...country to civilian rule, Yahya called elections last December for a National Assembly to write a new constitution. East Pakistanis gave Sheik Mujib's Awami League 167 of the region's 169 seats-and an overall majority in the combined nation's 313-seat assembly chamber. Mujib's platform called for a virtual dismantling of the central government, leaving it in charge of defense and diplomacy and giving the provinces total control of taxes, trade and foreign...
Because of its basic simplicity, the Wankel engine has long been considered a strong contender to supplant piston engines in mass-produced autos. Invented in 1954 by a mechanical wizard named Felix Wankel, the engine replaces conventional cylinders and pistons with a triangular rotor that revolves in a combustion chamber shaped like a fat figure eight. The spinning rotor not only controls the intake of gasoline and exhaust of burned gases, but turns the shaft that drives the wheels of the car. Thus Wankel engines have far fewer moving parts than piston engines. Moreover, they lack valves, rods, lifters...