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...most dramatic moment in the court session came when Mrs. Volner asked Miss Woods to re-enact her motions as the "mistake" was made. The secretary quickly demonstrated how she had turned slightly away from her typewriter, made a long stretch, and reached for the phone. Looking down, Mrs. Volner said dryly: "You took your foot off the pedal, didn't you?" Indeed she had lifted her foot. Flustered, Miss Woods declared: "Yes, that's just because I'm here and not doing anything else...
...will do things they would not otherwise do as individuals. The assumption is that relationships are formed before values are agreed upon. But political groups, like friendships, should be based on a shared set of values, a shared understanding. It is in trying to work out cooperatively how to enact what each individual believes that relationships are formed...
...second week of the committee's hearing on bills to set up an independent Watergate prosecutor. During lulls in the questioning, his eyes were focused on the intricate owl and sunflower he was doodling on notebook paper, but his advice was directed to the Senators: 1) enact legislation requiring Senate confirmation of Nixon's choice as special Watergate prosecutor, and 2) hold up the confirmation of Senator William Saxbe as Attorney General until the President promises to release all evidence requested by the prosecutor...
...Asked Governors to enact ordinances holding speeds to 50 m.p.h...
...President also urged Congress to enact by December an emergency energy bill that would give him much broader powers. These would include authority to order Daylight Saving Time year round, override temporarily federal, state and local clean-air acts in order to permit more burning of high-polluting coal, and restrict business hours in shopping centers and other enterprises. In addition, the President asked for authority to open up for commercial drilling the naval petroleum reserves at Elk Hills, Calif. All these powers would be given to the President under a bill sponsored by Washington Democratic Senator Henry Jackson...