Word: griffin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week of work by presidential advancemen in the traditionally Republican district underscored the importance Nixon placed on the political outing-for himself. The White House had talked such reluctant Republican leaders as Governor William Milliken and Senator Robert Griffin into greeting the President on his arrival at Tri-City Airport, though neither helped him do any campaigning the rest of the day. Advancemen also had laid out a 57-mile motorcade route that passed through a dozen communities but carefully avoided the main population centers of Saginaw and Bay City, both Democratic strongholds...
...deadline approached on Tuesday, Dean Burch, Nixon's newest high-level assistant, carried a copy of St. Clair's proposed response to Capitol Hill. There the Senate's top G.O.P. leaders, including Hugh Scott, Robert Griffin, John Tower, Wallace Bennett, Norris Cotton and William Brock, read it and bluntly told Burch that it was inadequate. "It won't fly," snapped one of these leaders. "It doesn't go far enough," complained Scott. "You've got to get a line in there on your intent to cooperate with the committee." In partial explanation, Burch told...
Leslie E. Griffin '70 said the Institute should be designed to "train young black minds in Afro-American Studies. Too often Harvard's emphasis on Afro courses has been 'famous negroes I have known...
Both clubs played sloppy ball for three-and-three-quarter hours, but made it close by exchanging the lead five times and pursuing an outcome for 11 innings. The final bungle belonged to the Hose, though, as Doug Griffin gave a run to the Birds in the top of the 11th with a two-base throwing error...
...short stop, Cecil Cooper holds down first, and Bernie Carbo is in the outfield. The squad is hardly recognizable from last year, except that Rico Petrocelli and Carlton Fisk should be back in the lineup in last season's positions as soon as they overcome early injuries, and Doug Griffin will play second again...