Word: hamilton
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...chairman: Democrat Daniel Inouye of Hawaii, who served on the Senate Watergate panel 13 years ago. The ranking Republican is Warren Rudman, a former New Hampshire attorney general and one of the Senate's most independent-minded members. The 15-member House committee will be chaired by Hamilton, with Richard Cheney of Wyoming, White House chief of staff under President Ford, as the ranking Republican. When asked last week whether he thought Reagan knew about the diversion of funds to the contras, Hamilton said, "The President says he doesn't know, and I assume he is telling the truth...
...Says FBI Agent John Anthony: "I remember when carrying a gun was pretty heavy stuff. Now you get 14- and 15-year-old kids carrying guns." Anthony and others claim that the widespread sale and use of crack has promoted warfare among young, heavily armed drug dealers. Notes Harry Hamilton, chief investigator at the morgue: "Kids can make $900 a week standing on a street corner whistling when a scout car goes by. There are plenty of 15- or 16-year-olds doing things like that, but they never...
...Hamilton, D-Ind., chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said yesterday he did not know if pro-Contra money went into political activity. "We just have no evidence of that at this point," he said...
...Alice Hamilton, Harvard's first woman professor, did not have it so easy during her 16-year tenure here: the University refused to give Hamilton, an assistant professor of medicine, free football tickets, admission to the Faculty Club and the benefit of a first name--she was referred to officially as only "A. Hamilton," so as not to divulge her sexual identity...
Fifty-one years after Hamilton retired, Harvard has established its first concentration devoted solely to the study of women, and it went across the Atlantic to ask an expert on 18th century crime, riots and poverty to head the field...