Word: gifts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...betrayed any signs of nervousness. Along with former Commerce Secretary Maurice Stans, 66, Mitchell is charged with perjury, conspiracy and obstructing justice as an outgrowth of a secret $200,000 cash donation to President Nixon's re-election campaign from Financier Robert Vesco on April 10,1971. That gift was allegedly made in exchange for easing Vesco's way through a Securities and Exchange Commission investigation into a $224 million mutual fund fraud. Mitchell and Stans are the first Cabinet officers to defend themselves in court against criminal charges since Warren Harding's Administration...
...Nixon supported the defense's contention that Stans had not explicitly requested Vesco to make the gift in cash-a key point in the case. Nixon told how Vesco, a casual acquaintance, had asked him to find out from Stans how he should make his contribution-in cash or by check. At the time, Nixon was employed by the Committee for the Re-Election of the President. Nixon recalled how he had waited for Stans on March 29, 1972, in the Metropolitan Club in New York City, sitting back in a corner and worrying that his single Bloody Mary...
...wouldn't go back home now if they granted me total immunity." In his televised phone talk with Vesco, which was filmed on both ends and aired on two consecutive nights last week, Cronkite got him to discuss some details of his own case. Vesco insisted that his gift to President Nixon's 1972 campaign was not intended to buy off an investigation of his affairs by the Securities and Exchange Commission. He also said that it was Nixon's former political adviser, the late Murray Chotiner, who had told him that $200,000 of the gift...
...picture ends in tragedy, but one which is more muted than it might have been without the efforts of Slide and Tanner. It also winds up as a small but authentic surprise gift for audiences. Miss Hawn's performance is rather too obviously calculated, but her male co-stars-Atherton, Sacks and Johnson-are adroit throwaway artists. The script neatly balances action, suspense and soft-spoken humor. Best of all, 26-year-old Director Steven Spielberg, in his first feature after a promising start in TV, emerges as a man to watch. It is easy to patronize and satirize...
...dissertation echoes the quandaries that some high-energy physicists have about the nature of matter is not of primary importance. What matters most is that he communicates how very much he cares about living as a whole man and how hard he has worked at it. Indeed, the special gift of the universal principle that Pirsig calls Quality is caring, even if one reaches for the heavens with grease on his hands...