Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...distasteful this proceeding is for me," protested Virginia's assertively fast-talking Butler, explaining that he had worked with Nixon in every one of the President's national elections, "and I would not be here today if it were not for our joint effort in 1972." Wistfully, Illinois' troubled and emotional Railsback sought escape. "I wish the President could do something to absolve himself," he said. Even New Jersey's Charles Sandman abandoned his brawling manner to explain: "For the first time in my life I have to judge a Republican, a man who holds the most powerful office...
...apartment he maintains near the Capitol. Weekends he spent in Newark with his wife Marianna, who had been a high school girl friend. (The Rodinos have two children-Peter, a law student at Seton Hall University, and Margaret, the wife of a Newark judge.) The pace was too fast. In February Rodino landed in Bethesda Naval Medical Center for a few days. He feared heart trouble, but the diagnosis was simple exhaustion. "If I had to do it over," Rodino quipped, "maybe I'd have worked harder to be a poet...
...inquiry went on, Rodino found himself confronted by an insoluble dilemma: the need to be fast as well as thorough. In closed sessions, Doar droned on and on, presenting the evidence that eventually filled 36 black loose-leaf binders-7,200 pages in all. By last month the whole inquiry was in danger of falling apart. The country was nodding off. "The committee is drowning in a sea of material," complained one ranking Republican Congressman who was ready to vote for impeachment. The Democratic leaders in the House pressured Rodino to get on with it. "Peter," said one top-ranking...
Harvey Brooks and the Fabulous Rhinestones finish Saturday at Sandy's in Beverly on the North Shore. Brooks, the bassist who leads the fast-moving soul band, has the same name as Harvard's dean of Engineering and Applied Physics, and rumor has it they're actually the same person. Check...
Mongo Santamaria is at the Jazz Workshop until Sunday, and plays fast, rhythmic, big-band Afro-Cuban stuff centering around his own bongo and drum work...