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...merely public facts will serve notice to the insiders that the columnist is an outsider. Being an outsider in Washington is the kiss of death. The phone stops ringing. Lunch dates are cancelled. The columnist's voice takes on a tremulous uncertainty, and is no longer the gravel-pitched. "Don't shit me buddy" that opens doors in Washington...
...Among them: the Robert E. Ginna reactor near Rochester, N.Y., Palisades near Kalamazoo, Mich., Maine Yankee at Wiscasset, Me., Indian Point No. 2 at Buchanan, N.Y., Beach Point No. 2 at Two Creeks, Wis., Turkey Point No. 3 on Florida's Biscayne Bay and Surry No. 2 in Gravel Neck...
...goal. The goods include $320 million worth of air buses, $50 million worth of grains, plus $390 million in increased purchases of agriculture, forestry and fishery products. Also included was $320 million for the enrichment of uranium to be used in Japan's nuclear power plants. The tough, gravel-voiced Tanaka declared his intention to reduce the long-range balance "to a more manageable size within a reasonable time...
Once the digging began, new problems and complaints arose. Since Back Bay is all built on land that was reclaimed last century from the Charles River Basin-really a swamp filled with sand and gravel-digging into the unstable soil disrupted nearby areas. Streets and sidewalks rose and fell, sometimes as much as six feet, pinching and twisting telephone, electric and gas lines. Several water mains broke. As a result, the city and local utilities are suing Hancock for some...
Indeed, the decision speaks for itself: it and another limiting Congressional immunity in the case of Seq. Mike Gravel (D-Als.) and his release of the Pentagon Papers, intone a tragic shift of the Supreme Court to a Mizonesque majority. The days of the Warren Court, of sweeping judicial reform, of the highest regard for civil liberty and human dignity, are passing us by as President Nixon assures a conservative majority. Even the Court's decision outlawing the death penalty--based largely on its inconsistent application--fuels a longing for an Abe Fortas or a Homer Thornberry. As time goes...