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Only Routine? Both Nixon and Agnew appeared to have made unusual preparations for the encounter, their first since Aug. 7. Agnew made a flight to New York on Thursday to consult there with his lawyers, the prestigious firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, and then flew back to Washington. As for Nixon, he was reported to have talked over the Agnew situation recently with a number of associates, including Herbert Brownell, who was President Eisenhower's Attorney General (Brownell later denied that the Vice President had been discussed), and John Connally, the former Treasury Secretary whom Nixon once...
Vice-Mayor Henry Owens preferred another candidate and refused to bend. All CCA had personally pledged to "consult together earnestly and in good faith" and "to vote together" on the new City manager, but Corcoran is still in City Hall...
...Leonard, special assistant to the President, Mr. Leonard states that among the points of Harvard's Affirmative Action Plan which "were incorrectly taken by HEW or were ironed out in oral discussions with HEW representatives" was the issue of "how many special interest groups, both minority and women, were consulted during the formulation." As co-president of the Graduate Women's Organization, I question this statement with regard to women's groups. Neither GWO nor any of the other legitimate Harvard women's groups which I have contacted, including the Medical Area Women's Group, the Law Women's Association...
Ervin makes no elaborate preparations for the hearings. He deliberately does not read the staff briefs on the witnesses' closed-door testimony. "I find it's better to hear the witness himself," says Ervin. Before the hearings, Chief Counsel Sam Dash does consult with the Senator on the witnesses and briefs him generally on their testimony. Unlike many committee chairmen, Ervin does not like to question witnesses at an early point in their public testimony. Instead, he waits for his colleagues to run through their questions. "When you're last," says Ervin, "you can segregate the wheat...
...representatives were scheduled to take the examination with the rest of their class. Levitt said that the B-School faculty has had a "close relationship with the SEC," and it seemed appropriate to consult the SEC members about the situation...