Word: fording
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Attorney General John Mitchell, who failed to catch Haynsworth's peccadilloes when he originally screened the judge, was expected to push hard for the confirmation to redeem his own prestige. Nixon men talk of "renewed efforts" on behalf of Haynsworth. House Republican Leader Gerald Ford revealed that he is considering bringing impeachment proceedings against liberal Associate Justice William O. Douglas. Douglas has been criticized for accepting money from a foundation that received some funds from gambling interests. Ford denied any retaliation against Haynsworth foes, but said that the same strict ethical standards applied to Haynsworth should apply...
...models were familiar Volkswagens and Renaults, converted to run on battery power. Others were brand new and strange-looking. General Electric unveiled its squat, three-door "Delta," which looks like a stylized descendant of the Jeep. Not to be outdone, Westinghouse showed off a sleek "Lotus Europa" sports car. Ford had a streamlined "Lead Wedge" that has whirred across Utah's salt flats at 138 m.p.h. Two Japanese electric cars were on display along with a British minicar costing about $1,000 and already in production...
...Ford will probably consult two Faculty committees before bringing the matters to the floor: the Kagan Committee and the Committee on Houses. The Kagan Committee has already considered the Winthrop-North and Adams-South exchanges and approved of both (they are almost identical in content). Although the Committee on Houses has not approved the plans, it has informally agreed not to oppose them...
PUSEY broke a long silence on the coed exchanges last week when he privately said he would give the proposals to Dean Ford to work out with the Faculty as he saw fit. President Pusey justifiably wants the Faculty's stamp of approval on any exchange-even an experimental...
Pusey and Dean Ford added, however, that scientists engaged in "pure research" financed by the Defense Department do not necessarily share that department's appraisal of their work. They noted that, in past years, the Defense Department had said that a project had military applications if even if it merely "increased the nation's capability...