Word: erwin
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...lately because he performed about 20 days worth of expensive and intensive editing over the last year and a half for Doris H. Kearns, who for five years has been writing a book about President Lyndon B. Johnson Kearns's editor at Basic Books publishing house in New York. Erwin A. Glikes, never knew about Rothschild until recently , when Kearns suddenly broke off her contract with Basic--which included a $24,000 advance--and signed for a much more Jucrative advance at Simon & Schuster. He has since sued Kearns for breach-of-contract and Kearns has responded that Glikes never...
...m.p.h. travel and was later limited to maximum speeds of 55 m.p.h. Likening the speed curb to Prohibition, "which made criminals of us all," the ebullient Yates, who pooh-poohs the energy crisis, reasons that speed limits are "at best hypocritical, at the worst specious." In the spirit of Erwin George ("Cannonball") Baker, a fabled driver who made it crosscountry in the late '20s in 60 hours, last week's participants made no public nuisance of themselves, suffered no loss of life or limb, and racked up a total of only twelve tickets. To Winner Cline, the worst...
...ERWIN N. GRISWOLD, 70, a former dean of Harvard Law School (1946-67) currently practicing law in Washington. As U.S. Solicitor General, a post he held from 1967 until 1973, Griswold presented the Government's unsuccessful Supreme Court case against publication of the Pentagon papers. He also argued before the Supreme Court that the Army's surveillance of civilians from 1967 to 1970 was legal, though "inappropriate." But Griswold refused to argue the Nixon Administration's appeal of a court decision requiring court orders before domestic radicals' telephones could be tapped. After that, he was forced...
...week's end, after meeting with Secretary of State Kissinger, President Ford announced the appointment of a blue-ribbon panel "to determine whether the CIA has exceeded its statutory authority." Among the members: Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, former California Governor Ronald Reagan, former U.S. Solicitor General Erwin N. Griswold, retired Army General Lyman L. Lemnitzer and John T. Connor, onetime Secretary of Commerce...
...Erwin N. Griswold, dean of the Harvard Law School from 1946 to 1967 and a member of the United States Civil Rights Commission from 1961 to 1967, was cited by Proxmire as the only member of the commission with a demonstrated concern for civil rights...