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...Candlestick Park. The 49ers clinched victory when they recovered a Danny White fumble with 30 seconds left as the Cowboys were driving to a winning score. Seconds earlier San Francisco quarterback Joe Montana, who three three touchdown passes on the day, had completed a six-yd. TD strike to Dwight Clark to give his team the lead in what had been a see-saw game...
...Republican Presidents, the opposite is true. The Dow fell an average 12.4% in the twelve months after the Inaugurations of Herbert Hoover, Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon. It is down in 1981 too, by about...
Ehrlichman adds to the J. Edgar Hoover legend by recalling that Hoover once informed Nixon that his agents had come across a report that Haldeman, Ehrlichman and another White House aide, Dwight Chapin, were homosexual "lovers." The FBI dug into the rumor, Hoover told the President, and turned in a report proving that it was unfounded. Ehrlichman suspected that Hoover manufactured the rumor so as to win White House favor by disproving...
...presents the material in small linked units, without the traditional division into chapters. Saxon treats the problem of retention by the obvious and old-fashioned device of a large number of daily cumulative review questions, examples and problems. One result, says Lionel Garrison, head of the math department at Dwight Englewood School in New Jersey, is that the book reinforces the "point that math is a reasonable approach to reasonable problems...
Much of the blame for this barbarous practice-of making controversial public figures clear themselves with public opinion before being restored to favor-goes back to Dwight Eisenhower. Nixon's was the first such trial by television, which took place 20 years earlier than Nixon's greater trials in Watergate. In 1952 he saved himself from being dropped as Ike's running mate by making his maudlin Checkers speech. Nixon had one decided advantage over Allen. He persuaded the Republican Party to buy half an hour of prime television time, where he could make his pitch uninterrupted...