Word: confirms
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...from more profitable tasks and setting national opinion against it. Wading into water his vice-president has already tested. President Nixon attempted this week to link the entire anti-war movement to the violent actions of its most extreme elements. It would be sheer folly for the movement to confirm Nixon's charges through further violent on-campus actions such as those at the University of Maryland...
...giving power and environmental systems. Almost immediately, the command module's instruments recorded a surge of electrical current followed by an alarming drop. On Odyssey's instrument panels, red and yellow warning lights flashed on. In Houston, controllers snapped to attention as telemetered data from Apollo 13 began to confirm the magnitude of the problem...
MOMENTS before voting began on the Carswell nomination, Robert Dole of Kansas turned his back on Vice President Agnew to speak directly to his fellow Republicans on the left side of the Senate chamber. Dole looked squarely at Marlow Cook of Kentucky, who had led the unsuccessful fight to confirm Clement Haynsworth. "The fate of G. Harrold Carswell rests on this side of the aisle," Dole said. "We will make the decision, as our votes will make the difference." Cook stared straight ahead. When his name was called to vote, he replied firmly...
Federal Judge Homer Thornberry of Texas, whose 1968 nomination collapsed when the Senate refused to confirm Abe Fortas as Chief Justice, accepted his fate with equanimity, returned to his Fifth Circuit Court bench, and talked jokingly of writing a book about his experience. Judge Clement Haynsworth, who suffered from conflict-of-interest charges after he was nominated, has also survived his ordeal. Declaring that "what happened last fall is dead and buried behind me," Haynsworth has resumed his intensely private way of life in Greenville, S.C., dividing his attention between his court cases and his prizewinning camellias. He has also...
...investigators at Harvard claim they found evidence of discrimination, particularly on the basis of sex, and had asked to see Harvard's personnel files to confirm or ref?le these findings. The Personnel Office denied them access to these files. John B. Butler. director of Personnel, said yesterday that the Department of HEW's contention that Harvard's refusal to show files is against Executive Order 11246 is "their opinion. We're complying as we see it," he said...