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Higher Powers. Tom, who lives five miles away, values privacy more; he grows marijuana plants. At 27, Tom is a long-haired business dropout who made a bundle running charter flights, selling dune buggies and speculating in the stock market. Now he meditates in his tiny split-level, made of vertical redwood planks. "I wanted to release some of the higher powers of the mind," he says. His home, which cost $2,000 in materials and furnishings, blends with the green leaves and gray trunks of the surrounding pine and oak trees...
...appointed special prosecutor last May, was fired for refusing to accept a compromise on the release of the Watergate tapes. He had assumed the job under a special eight point charter granting him an unprecedented degree of independence in investigating alleged irregularities in the 1972 presidential elections...
...notion of a new constitutional convention is an intriguing one. After 200 years, why not redraft the charter? These who wrote the first document were not gods, but men. They could not forsee the course that the country would take and they did not expect the republic to produce men like Nixon. From our new perspective, we might write a constitution more conducive to republicanism in the last half of the twentieth century...
...year-old Law School professor assumed the prosecutor's post in late May under a special eight-point charter granting him an unprecedented degree of independence in investigating all alleged irregularities connected with the 1972 presidential election...
Harrington and others in the new group expect to run for delegates' positions at the Democratic Party's charter convention next year, The New York Times reported last week. Last June the group applied for membership in the Socialist International, which includes West Germany's Social Democratic Party, France's Socialist Party, and England's Labor party. The current American affiliate is the Social Democrats, U.S.A...