Word: filles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lights dim and rooms fill once again with the familiar strains of Rossini's William Tell Overture, theme music for The Lone Ranger. Or with Rimski-Korsakov's Flight of the Bumblebee, accompanying another episode of The Green Hornet. Once more The Shadow purrs, "Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?" Sergeant Preston of the Yukon hustles his huskies, Our Gal Sunday strives to find happiness with a wealthy, titled Englishman, and 15-year-old Speed Gibson of the International Police doggedly pursues his archfoe, The Octopus...
Appointments to the Corporation are the product of a self-perpetuating mechanism in which the current members fill the vacancies in their own ranks. The most recent appointments were in 1970 when two professors, John Morton Blum '43 of Yale, and Charles P. Slichter '45 of the University of Illinois at Urbana, replaced two lawyers...
...Another 1971 act took the first step toward public financing with a provision that enabled taxpayers to earmark $1 (or $2 on joint returns) on income tax forms for the party of their choice. But President Nixon gutted the provision by giving it little publicity and requiring taxpayers to fill out a separate tax form. The checkoff had the potential of raising $113 million; it raised $4 million...
...administration would choose new House masters quickly and quietly. But this year, students are getting in on the act, and that apparently slows things up. There are two mastership vacancies still unfilled--Currier and Winthrop--and President Bok said yesterday that he doesn't know when he will fill them...
Impeachment was meant to be an integral part of our governmental system, a constitutional method for redressing wrongs committed by the country's high officials. We suffer no dearth of precedents (they fill over 2000 pages in House and Senate record books), and no lack of officials capable of presiding over the proceedings. But when the nation itself is in a period of profound social turmoil--as in the years of our impeached but unconvicted president, Andrew Johnson, and now--any challenge to even the temporary power holders seems to threaten disaster. Clearly, the Founding Fathers intended impeachment...