Word: coxing
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...need to do, and what this nation needs to do, is to pray in silence and listen to God to find out what he wants us to do." Welcoming a group of pro-Nixon demonstrators outside the White House, the President's daughter, Mrs. Edward Cox, expressed "outrage" at the criticism of her father and added: "Why should he resign? He hasn't done anything wrong." At Tricia's side, Ed Cox declared that Nixon is the victim of "one of the most vicious witch hunts in American history." But in a low-key reply to Nixon...
...Ziegler to henceforth take no more questions from the press on Watergate. It is caught up in an unstoppable investigative process, in the courts and in Congress. If it has consumed a year, Nixon's own resistance to disclosure, his dismissal of Jaworski's predecessor Archibald Cox, and his missing or erased White House tapes are major reasons. Nixon's "voluntary" cooperation with Jaworski has actually been a grudging struggle under threat of court action -and Jaworski may still have to seek subpoenas for other long-requested White House evidence...
After two years in the lower courts, the case will be reviewed by the U.S. Supreme Court on February 26. This week Harvard filed with the court a "friend of the court" brief written by Archibald Cox '34, Williston Professor of Law. The brief defends the right of admissions offices to make selections consciously designed to increase minority enrollment in their student bodies...
Harvard's brief was written by Archibald Cox '34. Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University, said last week that the decision to prepare an opinion was made as a result of simultaneous but separate discussions in Mass Hall and among a group of Law School professors. He said that Harvard's interests in the case are severalfold...
...This includes Beekman ("Beeky") Ehninger, whose amiably flaccid presence is spread thinly but creamily throughout the book. At 56, Beeky is more legal lap dog than beagle. By his own admission, he cares more about the firm than he does about the law. His main contribution to Shepard, Putney & Cox was to have saved the firm in 1946 by retiring the aging, respected founder and then pirating two brilliant school chums from a rival firm. Backed by a good name and private fortune, Beeky earns his keep by representing rich members of his family. But as death and inheritance taxes...