Word: gurney
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...city streets. There were a few problems, of course. Long Beach harbors seldom entice millionaires' yachts, and the local royalty consists entirely of wax dummies aboard the Queen Mary museum. But Grand Prix supporters predicted that the challenging 2.02-mile circuit designed by former Grand Prix Winner Dan Gurney and a $265,000 prize purse would offset the deficiencies...
...Ruth First, Christable Gurney and Jonathan Steele, The South African Connection...
...other members of the committee are David S. Landes, Goelet Professor of French History, Jerome H. Buckley '40, Gurney Professor of English Literature, and Seymour M. Lipset, former Professor of Government and Social Relations...
Nixon Defender. Gurney's prosecution arose out of charges that his aides collected some $400,000 in illegal or unreported campaign contributions, partly by demanding money from Florida builders in exchange for supposed Government favors. Gurney testified that he was at first unaware of these activities and stopped them when he found out about them...
...staunch defender of Richard Nixon during the Senate Watergate committee hearings, Gurney had seemed politically doomed by the trial. But after the verdict, he confidently declared that a return to politics "is an option." His other options: retiring to private law practice or writing about his trial in what he modestly heralds as "one of the greatest books in the history of American jurisprudence." In the meantime, he faces a bill for his legal defense that is estimated...