Word: drawning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ford might well have waited at least until indictments against Nixon were drawn, and detailed charges were on the public record, and then granted the pardon. While that would undoubtedly have drawn a heavy protest too, supporting the contention of Ford's aides that acting later might have been even more difficult, it would have spared Nixon the agony of a trial. The former President's surviving admirers would have resented his being grilled under oath in a court...
Which is why comparisons to The Sting or to the "camaraderie" movies about male companionship are ill-drawn. Altman may be trying to recover from the disaster of Thieves Like Us (his advertising got pulled) by making a sure-fire picture that will fund his "own" movie in Nashville, but with a few exceptions California Split is not a cheap turn-on picture. It's just a muted, funny movie that is very close to American life, and to call it empty would be like calling life empty--a moot point...
...part, President Bok has already begun appointing members of the DuBois Institute's advisory board. Leonard said that the bulk of the board will be drawn from Harvard faculty. Bok is also expected to appoint a secondary advisory committee, whose members would come from without the University, later in the year. Both Bok and Leonard have been in contact with foundations as part of an effort to raise over $5 million for DuBois...
Buckley is also an advocate of handgun legislation, which has drawn criticism from Sullivan. A rather conservative Democrat, Sullivan is a law and order candidate who believes citizens should be allowed to bear arms without restriction...
...what the society of this country most needs. But if ever this plan tends to result, as some of its supporters hope it will, in the admission of women to Harvard, then it should be vigorously opposed. At the threshold of the recitation-room the line must be drawn. By all means let the girls have the advantages which we posses. We should be glad to have the scanty salaries of our instructors increased; we should be glad to see the bright faces of the young ladies in Cambridge, and we would not even be so selfish as to envy...