Word: hamilton
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Says Peter Hochreiter, a Buffalo stockbroker: "The country is undergoing a binge of masochism, and Nixon should not resign." E.A. Lee, a retired construction company manager in Hamilton Square township, N.J., agrees: "If Nixon gets out, we'll just be giving some other burglar a chance...
Aaron Burr seems particularly pertinent. The Burr-Jefferson Electoral College tie in 1800 led to the Twelfth Amendment, which revised the process of electing the President and Vice President.* After killing Alexander Hamilton in the Weehawken duel in 1804, Burr became the first Vice President to be indicted-a precedent that has lately been dusted off by constitutional experts...
...through labels like Republican and Federalist to such common denominators as hunger for glory, power and the preservation of privilege. He talks of Washington's "eerie incompetence" as a military leader, while admiring the man's "fine talent for defeating rival generals in the Congress." Burr libels Hamilton as having been a British agent during the Adams Administration; he mocks him for reading women's novels wrapped in the Anti Jacobin Review...
Another emigrating Canadian, Kenneth Dummit of Hamilton, was also hot property in collegiate athletic circles. Number one defenseman and former captain of the Junior "B" Dundas Blues, Dummit concurred with Bell's estimation of Harvard...
...sure what she'd have thought of Bram Stoker's Dracula, which I'm told features three Victorian heroes who wander around waving crosses at a rate unmatched at least since Christ was a corporal. In the adaptation now at the Loeb, Hamilton Deane and John L. Balderston wisely cut out two heroes and a surplus Victorian heroine but they left all the crosses in. Their hearts, at least, were in the right place...