Word: dec
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some glimpses of behind-the-scenes maneuvering by the President's men. Newman told them that he had appraised 828 boxes of the President's general correspondence files in November and early December 1969, with the help of Supervisory Archivist Mary Walton Livingston of the National Archives. On Dec. 24, according to the report, he was told by Nixon's tax attorney, Frank DeMarco, that "there was nothing more...
...product is a massive march of minutiae organized by no other apparent guiding force than chronology. Blotner adheres slavishly to "the inexorable tick of the clock" that Edel urged biographers to avoid at all costs. The chapter headings, "Dec., 1918--September, 1919/September, 1919--June, 1920...," are almost selfparodies of Blotner's conception of biography...
...contribution to the new President. In what AMPI former General Manager Harold Nelson later candidly described as a "peace" offering, the cooperative in 1969 gave $100,000 to fund raisers for Nixon, ostensibly looking toward his 1972 re-election campaign. In its bid for more sympathy, AMPI pledged on Dec. 16, 1970, to contribute an additional $2 million for Nixon's 1972 re-election campaign. The cooperative delivered a first payment of $10,000 on March 22, 1971. Three days later, the Administration announced the increase in milk-price supports...
...There is no likelihood of successful prosecutions of individual Guardsmen." Yet parents, surviving students and their sympathizers refused to give up. They petitioned the Federal Government to reopen the inquiry. Finally, on orders from former Attorney General Elliot L. Richardson, a federal grand jury began hearings in Cleveland last Dec. 18. Over a 39-day period, the 22 jurors heard 173 witnesses...
Predicted by relativity theory and apparently recently detected in space (TIME, Dec. 10), a black hole is formed during the death throes of a giant star...