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...Noel Cannon, who painted her chambers pink, kept a pet Chihuahua by her side and was called the "Dragon Lady," once threatened to give a traffic officer "a vasectomy with a .38." While hearing a voting rights case brought by blacks in Alabama in the '60s, Federal Judge William Harold Cox exclaimed, "Who is telling these people that they can get in there and push people around, acting like a bunch of chimpanzees...
Paradoxically, however, dedicated arms controllers have lost ground during the hearings because the price of the treaty is almost certain to be a U.S. arms buildup. This was not only Kissinger's message, but that of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Defense Secretary Harold Brown, Democratic Senator Sam Nunn of Georgia and others. Indeed, the main issue no longer appears to be whether SALT II will pass, although that is not yet certain; instead, it is what kind of measures will accompany the treaty to strengthen the nation's defenses and send the right signals to the Kremlin...
...readable ("I don't deal in direct quotations," explained Talese, "I'm into what people think"). Meanwhile, Esquire's black-humor covers became intentionally outrageous, such as posing a benign Lieut. William Calley with a group of Asian children. The magazine's basic outlook, said Harold Hayes, one of its best editors, was to be "smart...
While grilling Defense Secretary Harold Brown, Jackson charged that the Administration had failed to comply with a law that he had sponsored in 1972. It requests that future arms agreements set equal levels for the strategic forces of both the U.S. and U.S.S.R. Because SALT II allows the Soviets to have more powerful missiles than the U.S., argued Jackson, there would be no equality under the pact. Said he to Brown: "A team of giants and a team of dwarfs might have equal numbers of players, but they are hardly equal." To which the Secretary retorted: "If the dwarfs...
...that there was enough evidence in both the King and Kennedy cases to warrant the Justice Department's continuing the investigation, although nothing was found to overturn the basic conclusion of the Warren Commission 15 years ago: that Oswald had acted alone. Discussing the House report, Michigan Congressman Harold Sawyer, a dissenting member of the committee, called it "supposition upon supposition upon supposition." A former prosecutor, Sawyer was asked what he would have done in his old job if someone had laid the report in his lap. Said he: "I'd have put it in the circular file...