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...Friday, Aug. 30, Ford called Buchen into the Oval Office. Ford asked him how long the criminal process and the trial of Nixon might drag on, how long it would be before the nation finally had Watergate behind it. Buchen's answer fell like lead: it would take nine months to a year before a trial could begin. Jaworski himself had told Buchen that, because of the massive publicity surrounding the House Judiciary Committee's unanimous finding that Nixon should be impeached because he obstructed justice, it would take a year or even longer "before the selection of a jury...
...sometimes drove himself and his staff seven days a week. Anyone who could not take the pace dropped out; the rest were inspired-though grateful when Moses' wife Mary would come down to the office late at night and drag the boss home to their two daughters...
...goods that might become scarce or rise further in price. That process cannot continue forever. Soon, businessmen will have to stop filling already bulging warehouses, and the reduction in their orders for goods either will bring on a classic "inventory recession" or, at minimum, will be a drag on production...
...theater world: Sweet Eros and The Bear have shut down along with Theater Two, largely because of continuing harassment from state and local authorities combined with substantial financial difficulties. Back in the spring this enlightened Commonwealth passed new obscenity laws that made the Victorians look like Linda Lovelace in drag. The State Fuzz promised to bust the show once the new laws were passed, and because policemen always keep their word, they busted it again and again and again. The shows producers decided to try to comply with the state's puritan tastes and removed the "open and gross lewdness...
...second act, the galvanic Big Daddy won't tolerate Brick's detachment. The two of them, alone on stage, have a knock-down drag-out dispute in the tradition of the Greek agon. This is the most powerful scene in the play, and one of the most powerful in modern drama. Williams is often at his most effective when he is autobiographical. Tom and Laura in Menagerie were modeled on the playwright and his introverted sister Rose, who had to be institutionalized for life. The confrontation in Cat was his way of trying to exorcise the demonic memory...