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...Hale A. Champion, special assistant to President Bok and former undersecretary of the Department of Health Education and Welfare (HEW), said yesterday, the proposal "basically just moves the Office of Education into a department...
...Chinese (in June 1972)...had invited me and Democratic Majority Leader Hale Boggs to visit in June with our wives and several members of our staffs. As a youngster I used to dig in the sand on the beaches of Lake Michigan. If I dug deep enough, my mother told me, I'd wind up in China. Now I was actually going to make the trip...
...them were William Timmons, lobbyist for both Nixon and Ford; Joe Waggonner, who retired last year from his position as ranking Southerner on the Ways and Means Committee so he would "have more time to spend with his family"; and Tommy Boggs, son of the former House Majority Leader, Hale Boggs, and lobbying quarterback for a team of more than 50 lawyers in the firm of Patten, Boggs and Blow. In addition, Chrysler's own executives are reputed to have met with over 100 legislators themselves...
...involving backdated documents to win a Government bid in 1970, took the Fifth Amendment when questioned by a grand jury. He resigned last year before any disciplinary action was taken against him. Federal Judge Willis Ritter, infamous for an abusive temper that led him to bully lawyers and to hale a postmaster and 29 aides into court because their mail-sorting machinery in the courthouse was too noisy, was allowed to stay on the bench until he died last year at age 79. Examples like these, not to mention frequent charges of senility and laziness, have spurred congressional interest...
...victim's word against the defendant's, a standard defense tactic has long been to make the woman appear to have been seeking sex. Courts allowed this, generally following the admonitory dictum on rape laid down in the 17th century by the English jurist Sir Matthew Hale: "An accusation easily to be made and hard to be proved, and harder to be defended by the party accused, tho never so innocent." Over the years, rape became encrusted with rules to protect men from vengeful women: almost anything about the victim's sex life was relevant...