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...North" charge against Thomson for prowling through business tax records that involved his political opponents-a search that has since been declared illegal by the state's supreme court. Governor Thomson's opponent will be Democrat Richard Leonard, 55, a former state senator from Nashua and a fervent antitax man himself...
When Richard Nixon turned over the reins of Government to Gerald Ford last week, the U.S. business community -long filled with fervent Nixon supporters-burst into a prolonged round of applause. It was a reaction of relief rather than celebration. A long-threatening cloud of uncertainty had been suddenly and dramatically blown away. Executives were infused with hope that public faith in White House leadership, and thus Government management of a sorely troubled economy, now stood at least a chance of being rekindled. "This is the best thing that could happen at the present time," says George Strichman, chairman...
...figure predicted by California G.O.P. Representative John H. Rousselot. The Washington Post surveyed the House and reported that only 14 Republicans were willing to say that they opposed impeachment of Nixon, while 116 said that they were undecided. Moreover, Representative Joe D. Waggonner Jr. of Louisiana, a fervent Nixon backer, has told leaders that fewer than 30 Southerners (out of 121) plan to vote against impeachment...
...sent an observer to a U.N. meeting on seabeds in 1973. He reported back, in essence: "You won't believe what's going on. They want to give control over seabed mining to an international monopoly." Treasury Secretary George Shultz and Under Secretary William E. Simon, both fervent believers in free-market competition, were appalled. They ordered an economic review of U.S. policy. Recalls a Treasury official: "We broke rice bowls all over the place...
...impression too; Orville (as he was then unhappily known) was hired by a local bluenose to solicit offers from prostitutes so he could turn them in to the police. He wound up sympathizing with the ladies, and detesting the minions of the law. In later years, Douglas became a fervent supporter of the Warren Court decisions limiting police powers and protecting individual privacy...