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Inouye, Weicker and Talmadge have all gained respect as tough, impartial questioners. Yet none commands the respect--perhaps because none is chairman or co-chairman--accorded to Ervin and Baker...
...biggest game show for this summer is undeniably Watergate. Each of the "quiz kids" on the committee has developed an identity of his own. Sam Ervin and Howard Baker are almost universally liked and respected for their roles in the investigation--although many of the women are a little disappointed to find that Baker is only five feet six inches...
...Ervin, of course, is the wise old sage of the hearings. Like a visiting uncle, he dispenses his pearls of wisdom with droll humor and biblical quotations. But it is when he gets angry that Ervin is at his best, Ervin, like none of the others, can bear down on a witness, cutting directly to the heart of the testimony and making clear the full implications of that testimony. His dogged emphasis on the Constitution and the ways in which it has been abused by a particular witness puts the matter in its proper, sweeping perspective...
After a conversation with Kalmbach, acquaintances say, a person always has a precise understanding of the situation. This week the Ervin committee-and the public-will be looking for just that precise understanding of the money side of Watergate...
Viral pneumonia is sometimes known, as Senator Sam Ervin Jr. referred to it in his lip-smackin' drawl, as "walkin' pneumonia." Often, as Dr. David J. Sencer of the U.S. Center for Disease Control pointed out, it is no worse than a bad cold or a touch of flu. But for some victims, especially those over 50, the bug that hospitalized President Nixon last week is a misery-making, debilitating illness. Victims can be reassured by the fact that viral pneumonia proves fatal in less than 1% of cases...