Word: hart
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Washington corridor could have been the sleek candidate for the U.S. presidency that he once seemed destined to become. "Hiya, John B.," said a passer-by with a warm slap on the shoulder. Despite such joviality, John B. Connally, 58, was heading toward U.S. District Judge George L. Hart's courtroom to face trial. The charges: accepting a $10,000 gratuity for influencing President Nixon to increase federal milk-price supports in 1971. Three times Governor of Texas, and Secretary of the Treasury under Nixon, Connally looked tense last week at what may be the last big trial handled...
...trial begins, Williams has already scored points. In pretrial motions, he convinced District Judge George Hart that two perjury charges against Connally for allegedly lying under oath should be tried separately from the bribery counts. Hence if Connally wins a bribery acquittal, the perjury counts would most likely be dropped. Williams also got the court to agree that the jury would not be sequestered for the three-or four-week trial - a confinement that can lead jurors to take frustrations out on the defendant...
Representatives are not the only beneficiaries of Ford's safety net. When Peter Dominick, 59, lost his Senate seat to Democrat Gary Hart, he asked the President for an ambassadorship. He got one, to Switzerland, at $38,000 a year, but he will have expense and entertainment allowances totaling...
...meanness of spirit, TIME'S art critic and his story on Thomas Hart Benton [Feb. 3] deserve a good swift rebuke. I have never read a more transparently prejudiced attack on one of our most original and worthy artists...
...Thomas Hart Benton, the "GrassRoots Giant," is reduced to an artistic pygmy by the time Robert Hughes has finished [Feb. 3]. It is sad that of all Benton's outstanding works, Hughes deems it fit to mention only The Jealous Lover of Lone Green Valley because it contains a portrait of ex-Pupil Jackson Pollock. Apparently Mr. Hughes is still smarting from the sting of Benton's caustic rejection of much of so-called modern art. Is he also among those seeking revenge...