Word: griffin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Flying back to the capital from a weekend in Michigan, Senator Griffin worked on a statement that went beyond his previous warning. He too had learned that
...Senate's second-ranking Republican, Michigan's Robert Griffin, announced that he had sent a letter to the President warning that he would vote for conviction if Nixon defied any subpoenas for tapes and documents issued by the Senate. Already, Nixon's congressional support appeared to be shaky and shrinking...
...Judiciary Committee had voted on the second and third articles of impeachment, the Democratic and Republican leaders of the Senate met in Majority Leader Mike Mansfield's office. After the meeting, Mansfield, together with Minority Leader Hugh Scott and Democratic and Republican Whips Robert Byrd and Robert Griffin, announced that the Senate Rules Committee would review existing impeachment trial rules...
Though Kalmbach proved to be no help, Rebozo also went to William E. Griffin, counsel for the Hudson Valley (N.Y.) National Bank and a close associate of Robert Abplanalp, another millionaire friend of the President's. The investigators learned that Abplanalp met in Washington last May with Richard Danner, the Hughes executive who originally gave the $100,000 to Rebozo. Later in the month, Rebozo and Danner met with the President at Camp David. The investigators believe that Abplanalp provided the cash to replace the missing money in the safe-deposit box. Then last June, more than three years...
...GOLDEN VOYAGE OF SINBAD passes one crucial test for the matinee trade: go out for popcorn and you will probably miss something good. Among the movie's major attractions are a one-eyed centaur, a winged griffin, a six-armed bronze goddess who comes to deadly life, and a rather testy flying homunculus. These creatures have their origin in the imagination and the work shop of Ray Harryhausen, a special effects whiz. He brings them all alive in a process called Dynarama, which would appear to combine equal portions of stop-action photography, elaborate multiple exposures and a kind...