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...according to Company Secretary Robert Bartlome. However, when it became clear that the group would be summoned to repeat the story before a federal grand jury, Bartlome informed his boss that he and the other seven would not perjure themselves before it. At that, recounted Watergate Committee Counsel Sam Dash, Steinbrenner "laid his head on the desk and said he was ruined, the company might be ruined, and he mentioned something about jumping off a bridge." Steinbrenner has told the committee that he will invoke the Fifth Amendment if called to testify...
...never short-circuited in Canada; fair catches and downed balls are prohibited. On punt returns, even downfield blocking is illegal. The receiver is protected only by a mandatory 5-yd. neutral zone before he catches the ball. After that the runner is either obliterated or he makes a mad dash for daylight. In another novel twist called the rouge play, any punt, kickoff, or quick kick scores a point for the kicking team if the ball reaches the opponents' end zone...
...problem with the Red Line is that it lacks dash; its outdoor stops at the southern end of the line are too sterile and ordinary to get away from a suburban sense of blandness. What would most improve the Red Line is a change-over to a new type of car which would allow riders to look out the front. This would maximize the line's basic underground strengths...
...Midwest has long been Nixon country. For years, millions in the heartland have felt that the President was one of them, embodying the simple traits they admire so much: purposeful ambition, pride in country, respect for family and church, plus a dash of disdain for the culture pushers from the East. But to these same people today, he is a much diminished man. His troubles are like a disgrace in the family. Few people want to disavow him completely, and some of the old affection lingers. Most citizens are embarrassed, perplexed and, most of all, saddened...
...takes one to know one. Speaking at Briarcliff College in Briarcliff Manor, N.Y., Journalist Tom Wolfe, 42, chided lawyers on both sides of the Watergate witness table for being impenetrable prose artists. For example, "Samuel Dash, a professor of law, I believe, says, 'Was this his own volitional action?' When translated, he really means 'Did he want to do it?' " As for New Journalism itself, Wolfe wasn't abandoning the Kandy-Kolored circumlocutions that had made him famous, but he claimed he was never going to talk about them again. Or as euphuistic Wolfe...