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...student said the eight-point spread was too small and that the 80 to 85 range for the marginal mark was too large. "The marginal people were required to make up all this mickey mouse stuff during vacations, people were really unhappy, and that's why we got so much support," he said...
...year-old Law School professor assumed the prosecutor's post in late May under a special eight-point charter granting him an unprecedented degree of independence in investigating all alleged irregularities connected with the 1972 presidential election...
...Danmark Trophy, sailed at Coast Guard Saturday and Sunday, it was the home team that overtook Harvard in the second day of events to win the event. Terry Neff, who was the low-point skipper in A Division, and Chris Middendorf, collected an eight-point lead after Saturday's six races, only to see it vanish in light airs on Sunday. Coast Guard won by the same margin...
Under Congressional pressure, Richardson released an eight-point charter for the special prosecutor yesterday which states that the attorney general will not "countermand or interfere with the special prosecutor's decisions or action." The charter also specifies that the prosecutor would not be removed from his post "except for extraordinary improprieties on his part...
Even before the burglary of the psychiatrist's office, the White House had begun to shift its clandestine activities toward the effort to re-elect Nixon. In 1971, Nixon's prospects for re-election were not promising. A Harris poll in May showed Muskie with an eight-point lead over the President, assuming Alabama Governor George Wallace would run. Nixon, who had declared that "when I'm the candidate, I run the campaign," did not trust the Republican Party professionals to handle his re-election drive. He wanted a separate organization. A group of admen and pollsters were consulted; they...