Word: ervin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Will people actually go along with such changes in growth patterns? The Club's third effort, a sociological investigation of human goals, optimistically indicates as much. Explains Philosopher Ervin Laszlo, now working at the U.N.'s Institute for Training and Research: "The materialistic growth ethic is not an immutable expression of human nature." Beyond this possibility of altruism, however, the Club of Rome holds out the motivation of simple self-interest. If nations do not act to equalize resources, Club members warned in Philadelphia, mankind will rush lemming-like to the disasters so well publicized by Limits...
...flyer showed Annette Bishop, 37, her husband's mother, Mrs. Lobelia Bishop, 68, and the Bishop boys, William Bradford III, 14, Brenton, 10, and Geoffrey, 5. The only missing member of the family was Bradford Bishop, 39. Says North Carolina Attorney General Rufus Edmisten, once Senator Sam Ervin's assistant during the Watergate hearings, "Everything just fell into place" after that hunch by the local Maryland police...
...product of the Nixon administration. After President Johnson authorized a needed revision of the crime code in the 1960's, Attorney, Generals John P. Mitchell and Richard G. Kleindienst '41 re-wrote the bill, inserting repressive clauses. In the words of former Senator Sam J. Ervin, they produced a 735-page "hideous proposal" that would create a police state in America...
...then, is Fred V. Malek? Was he indeed a hatchet man under H.R. Haldeman who devised schemes to illegally circumvent the Civil Service and other federal departments in rewarding Nixon's friends and punishing his enemies. Did he con the Ervin Committee when he denied having authorized a White House grantmanship proposal drawn up by his staff, which he himself admitted would have proved illegal if implemented? Let's call this dossier number one on Fred Malek...
James Hamilton, a southern lawyer who questioned Malek closely in Ervin Committee executive sessions as assistant majority counsel, knows the book on Malek as well as anyone. Hamilton says that all the suspicious information on Malek's role in the White House and "responsiveness" lies in the Senate Hearing reports...