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...sole purpose of the Jenner Committee was to put the finger on individuals who would use the Fifth Amendment to refuse answers and thus bring into public gaze individuals who would be barbecued," Mather charged. "Jenner called about 100 witnesses fully knowing that at least 80 of them would fall back on the Fifth Amendment," Mather claimed...
...opened. Glaring fiercely, the dog got four sheep to back slowly inside. However, a rebellious old ewe charged at Rock. Without even "popping his jaws" (snapping with feigned ferocity) or guiding her by the ear ("gripping" is illegal), Rock stood fast and caught her eye with his Svengali gaze. The ewe turned and pushed her way into...
...under to the old master. They were as true to their age and hemisphere as Rembrandt had been to his. To portraitists of such quality, models are not only flesh and bones in a chair but also thoughts and feelings in the air. Madame Lebrun's sad, narrow gaze-as much as her elegant blouse and the stiffness of her spine-is forever Victorian...
...Averted Gaze. Subject to all of the traditional tensions between northern and southern Californians (as well as the natural political stresses), Nixon and Knowland never have been close. Real coolness developed in 1950 during Nixon's tough campaign for the Senate against Representative Helen Gahagan Douglas. Both Senator Knowland and Governor Warren considered Nixon something of an upstart. They offered him no help, gazed steadily the other way. Nixon told friends: "When the going gets hard, you learn who your friends are not-and Warren and Knowland certainly...
Last year a vacationing Italian engineer and nobleman dragged his gaze away from Capri's ubiquitous Bikini bathing suits long enough to notice some eels at play. Those particular eels, thought the Marchese Domingo de Mistura, need fresh water. Their presence was an unmistakable sign that there must be fresh-water springs under the island. With little more than that to go on, Mistura persuaded local and Italian officials to help him drill a well. Last week, after five months of digging through folds of hard rock near Anacapri, he struck fresh water at a point 171 feet below...