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Climax to Come. Senator Sam Ervin (see story page 13) will resume his Watergate committee hearings next month, putting on display witnesses who will testify about the Administration's role in the milk deal and the curious $100,000 campaign contribution from Howard Hughes that Bebe Rebozo kept in that safe-deposit...
White House Counsel J. Fred Buzhardt accepted the committee's subpoena but gave no indication whether it would be honored. An aide said that Nixon considered the subpoena "incredible." If the White House does not obey it, however, Committee Chairman Sam Ervin has vowed to ask the courts to force the Administration to comply...
...campaign purposes but was returned to Hughes this year. The Hughes associates' testimony was not disclosed. At one point, however, Hughes Attorney Chester Davis opened a tattered briefcase and dumped bundles of subpoenaed $100 bills, bound in rubber bands, onto the table in front of Chairman Sam Ervin...
Davis snapped: "Here's the money. Do what you want with it." Ervin had the bills photocopied and returned to Da vis. Afterward, committee staffers began checking serial numbers to see if the bills are at least three years old. If they are, that would buttress Rebozo's story that the money lay in a safe-deposit box for three years...
...many laymen, a number of churchmen have reacted with prayer and indignation to Watergate (now an entry, along with words like Adiaphora and Suttee, in the new Baker's Dictionary of Christian Ethics). Yet moral outrage from the pulpit is not as widespread as it might be; Sam Ervin has quoted the Bible on the issue ("God is not mocked") more often and more effectively than many a preacher. Items...