Word: ervin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...able to turn the hearings to his advantage. Letters poured into the senator's office encouraging him to run for president. The dimpled photogenic Baker, who exchanged backwoods lawyer logic and Southern wit with the parade of Nixon appointees and committee chairman Sam Ervin, gained a following that he has not yet lost...
Because of the prompt evacuation, the death toll was low: only nine people were known to have died. But many survivors had hair-raising close calls. Ervin Nordmann rushed ahead of the storm to board up his beach house at Gulf Shores, only to be forced to spend the night there when his car would not start. After the howling winds moved on, Nordmann discovered that his house was one of only three still standing out of the 40 that once lined the beach...
...Shirley. Nonetheless, Greenberg siphons all of Watergate through this couple, and, worse still, he dramatizes the banalities of their domestic life. John's premarital flings with other women (including a French floozy who seems to have stepped out of Irma La Douce) get more screen time than the Ervin hearings. The Deans' bouts with alcohol are presented with the florid excess of an old Hollywood weeper like /'// Cry Tomorrow...
Wednesday night, the Charles Mingus Reunion Band is playing at Swift's. The Master had definite ideas about how his music was to be played, and no one left his Jazz Workshop Group without a solid background in Mingus-Music. Trumpeter Ted Curson, saxophonist Booker Ervin, drummer Dannie Richmond, and the other members of the band all worked extensively with Mingus--their performance should be very special. The awesome bass chair will be filled by Charlie Haden, reason enough to hear a set of swinging inspiration...
...apportion votes in the convention, and whether the convention should refuse to propose an amendment it was summoned to consider. Although the Constitution never mentions these questions, there is no reason to expect Congress will meet serious opposition to an act outlining a convention's procedural details. Senator Sam Ervin (D-N.C.) proposed and the Senate adopted just such a bill twice already, in 1971 and 1973, but the House never approved it. And there are legal precedents applicable to each question--for example, it seems probable a convention would contain one delegate from each congressional district...