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...police uniform, badge and nameplate were mysteriously stolen from a parked car. Three and a half hours later, the official car of Police Superintendent Clarence Giarrusso was itself stolen. Though both the thefts were eventually believed to be minor and unrelated crimes, they seemed at the time to confirm the wisdom of the Secret Service's caution, which had been inspired by the two quite disparate, earlier supposed threats...
First Team. Nixon urged the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to "move expeditiously" to confirm Kissinger's nomination at hearings next month. The Senators admire the new appointee's talents, but they are not without misgivings. They are expected to'subject Kissinger to close interrogation, not only about his views on foreign affairs but about his acquiescence in the wiretapping performed on several members of his own staff. In the end, though, Kissinger will undoubtedly be confirmed, as he deserves...
...Agnew should leave office for any reason, Nixon would face a dilemma. His nominee as Agnew's successor must be approved by a majority of both the Senate and the House. Congress might refuse to confirm a weak or controversial appointee. On the other hand, the appointment of a strong, popular man would make Nixon's own resignation -or impeachment-more acceptable to much of the public...
...Edward Brooke, a moderate Republican, was one of the unimpressed: "The President did not answer these serious charges with any specifics. We wanted facts; he gave us rhetoric." Michigan Republican Governor William Milliken, similarly, said he had hoped that Nixon "might be willing, in a more tangible way, to confirm what he was saying." Republican Congressman Mark Andrews of North Dakota agrees that the public is more concerned about high food prices than about Watergate, but he also believes that the two different problems "make a most potent political combination...
...reached 180 beats per minute or they became fatigued. Fourteen of the stationary runners said that they experienced second wind, while twelve did not. But in neither group could the doctors measure any significant physical changes that would enable the runners to perform better or longer. Their findings thus confirm what many athletes have long suspected: in sports, the head is as important as the body...