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Meanwhile in Baltimore, Tommy Davis capped the Birds' three-run rally in the ninth with a two-out, two-run single. Andy Etchebarren had started the rally off loser Mickey Lolich, 16-20, with a single. Curt Motten followed with a walk and Birds' boss Earl Weaver replaced both players with pinch-runners...
...Well," said California's Democratic Representative Don Edwards, "that's the end of the honeymoon." That curt comment may prove to be as good a summary as any of the political consequences of President Ford's complete pardon of Richard Nixon. Democrats were almost unanimously opposed. Most of those Republicans who agreed to comment said that they favored the pardon. "It was the only decent and prudent course to follow," declared Barry Goldwater. Many Republicans were distressed, however, and the abrupt resignation of Ford's press secretary in protest against his boss's decision could...
Aldiss has always written with gusto. This book is not just an exciting, macabre story. Using a verbal counterpoint -19th century literary style against the curt phrases of the 21st-the author has brought off a convincing interpretation of Frankenstein for today...
...committee's volumes makes this interpretation plausible. On April 18, 1973, while the Ellsberg trial was still under way, Assistant Attorney General Henry Petersen called to tell the President that E. Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy had broken into Dr. Fielding's office. The President's curt reply: "I know about that. That's a national security matter. Your mandate is Watergate. Stay out of that." In mid-April, the Justice Department began to advise Judge Byrne of the Government's covert activities involving Ellsberg. On May 11, the case was dismissed...
Doctors first became aware of the problem when Lee Strom, 60, a cook in a Walnut Creek, Calif., restaurant, was admitted to the University of California Medical Center with what Dr. Curt Ries diagnosed as agranulocytosis. The condition, characterized by the body's inability to produce white blood cells, had left Strom weak and feverish and with so severe an infection in his rectal area that doctors were forced to perform a colostomy, bypassing his lower bowel...