Word: filed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Summary." Given five days by the appellate court to file his notice of appeal to the Supreme Court, Nixon faced a deadline of midnight on Friday; he had to act before then or the lower court's order would go into effect. Instead of filing, Nixon cited the crisis in the Middle East and appealed to an overriding national interest in first announcing that he would personally prepare a "summary" of information on the tapes that he considered relevant to the multiple Watergate investigations...
...Clement Atlee. The new nationalization would include land for industrial and residential development, the trucking industry, shipbuilders, parts of the drug, machine-tool and construction industries, as well as the new North Sea oil and gas development. Although the new Labor platform is popular with the rank and file, it is clearly the fuzziest scheme for economic change since George McGovern's 1972 welfare program. Roy Jenkins, Wilson's former Chancellor of the Exchequer, expressed doubt about the plan. "It is no good taking over a vast number of industries without knowing how or by whom they will...
...various locations round the U.S., British Columbia and France, although it is impossible to tell exactly where. To establish each new locale, Director Furie (The Ipcress File, Lady Sings the Blues) takes a closeup of a regional license plate, as if he were a cop keeping tab on the traffic. From Washington, D.C., to Washington State, about the only things that change are the colors and the numbers on the licenses. Hit! tries very hard to be a tough action picture, but it is just a little too addled-maybe from all that commuting...
...agreeing to a negotiated plea, the Government would commonly file away forever the sheaf of evidence amassed against a defendant for possible trial purposes. Attorney General Elliot Richardson insisted that a full summary of the Government's case against the Vice President be attached to the court record and thus made public. Agnew reluctantly agreed, later pointing out that he did not admit to any of the allegations contained in the document. Nevertheless, the extraordinary, 40-page "exposition" prepared by U.S. Attorney George Beall and his staff constitutes a tightly woven, damning case against Agnew. Its high points...
...storm the place and forcibly eject his hard-to-estrange wife, but at the risk of never winning another woman's vote in Maryland. As a friend of the Governor's observed: "If she goes, she'll have to go under her own steam." He could file for a Maryland divorce, but since it is contested, he could have as much as a three-year wait. If he sought a speedier divorce elsewhere, he would have to establish out-of-state residence, and thus give up his office...