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...three seniors who won the award are Lawrence Berger '70, Thomas Cross '70, and Les?ie F. Griffin...
...future U.S. operations in Cambodia after June 30. Often speaking to a nearly empty chamber, Republican Senators prevented any substantive vote. An innocuous change in the wording of the measure's preamble was approved, 82 to 11, but it amounted only to what Republican Whip Robert Griffin called a "cosmetic" to make the legislation "look a little better" to the Administration. The modification did not change the White House's opposition to any congressional restriction...
...undeclared guerrilla-style filibuster. A vote will take place this week, but only on the preamble. Debate on the amendment's core might go on indefinitely, since it takes a two-thirds vote to impose cloture. The tone that it could take was suggested by Michigan Senator Robert Griffin's remark that the amendment would "give aid and comfort to the enemy...
...upon a device that they thought would allow troubled Senators to sidetrack the nomination without taking the full heat of voting against it. They proposed sending the matter back to the Judiciary Committee for further study ?and there it would almost certainly die. By March 24, Republican Robert Griffin of Michigan warned Nixon that the Democrats needed to pick up only a dozen Republican defectors to carry that vote. From then on, the pro-Carswell Senate leaders and Administration liaison men met daily in the White House to plot strategy...
...group of leading citizens want to rename Main Street in New London, Conn., after the city's most famous summer resident. But it will only become Eugene O'Neill Drive over the dead body of Mayor Thomas Griffin, 78. "What did O'Neill do for New London," asks Griffin, himself a Connecticut Irishman, "besides write a few books...