Word: ervin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...York's Eyewitness News, made the show because, says Executive Producer Dennis Doty, he should "wear well in the morning." Indeed he has so far been unflaggingly unabrasive. To provide political commentary, the show has enlisted such part-time "AMericans" as Lindsay, former Senator Sam Ervin, former Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Civil Rights Activist Jesse Jackson...
...from the real wall. It was white, and looked like a wall. The best the conceptualists could do was a show by that professional enfant terrible, Les Levine, that featured drawings of five dozen or so Watergate characters, along with a voice on a loudspeaker intoning "June fifth, Sam Ervin, blue-gray suit, dark blue tie, pale blue shirt, gold watch...
...Ervin Jr., 78, Democratic Senator from North Carolina for 20 years: "My greatest regret has been my inability to enact some very basic laws that would guarantee individual freedom. I believe that you ought to leave as much governing as possible to the people at the local level...
Nonetheless, in recent years the criminal justice system had fallen far behind. Recently Congress, led by Senator Sam Ervin, passed a little-noticed bill aimed at shortening the delay in federal courts. The new law, signed by President Ford last week, provides that if a defendant is not tried within 100 days of his arrest, the charges against him must be dismissed...
...bill was largely the result of four years of effort by Senator Ervin, who, along with John Conyers in the House, helped work out many of the compromises with hesitant fellow legislators. "This process of refinement has developed a bill which carefully balances the rights of the individual and society," Ervin told his colleagues on the Senate floor two weeks ago. They agreed and overwhelmingly gave it final approval. The moment provided a fitting capstone to Ervin's career as a civil libertarian; the vote came on his last day in the Senate...