Word: hart
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Fourth of July, and Joshua M. Rubins '70, dean of students at the Summer School, is sitting at his baby grand piano. Sheet music by Cole Porter, Rogers and Hart and Rubins himself litter his Lehman Hall office. "I'm sort of the resident Cambridge musical comedy buff," says Rubins. "I've studied it carefully. I'm really more than...
...follow the likes of Coward and Hart has been a dream of many an aspiring songwriter, and Rubins is no exception to the rule: "When I was younger I did want to go to Broadway. Now the basic thing I wanted to do when I was 18 is no longer a fantasy. I know a lot of people in the business." So Rubins will finally leave the womb of Cambridge to seek a living in New York. "I'd be thrilled--thrilled if I could support myself doing anything involving the arts"--and that includes writing songs, teaching acting, writing...
...when he denied that he had been subjected to presidential pressure in the ITT case. But instead of being tried for perjury, he was allowed to plead guilty to the misdemeanor of having "refused to answer" certain questions. Many outside legal experts were astonished that Federal Judge George L. Hart Jr. accepted that strained version of Kleindienst's act. They were even more surprised when the judge handed down a soft sentence: the statutory minimum of one month in jail and a $100 fine (both suspended...
Higher-Ups. Embarrassed prosecutors blame Hart's leniency for most of the uproar which has prompted more and more questions about all Watergate plea bargains. The practice itself is little admired but long established in the U.S. judicial system, where it is used mainly to reduce the number of trials on already crowded court dockets. But this consideration is scarcely relevant to Watergate; federal prosecutors defend their use of bargained pleas on other grounds. For one thing, the bargains have meant sure, final convictions in many cases that might have been shaky in court. Also, the lesser Watergate cases...
...nation's quietest unions, called its first major strike since 1921; 110,000 union members walked off their jobs making tailored men's and boys' suits, topcoats and overcoats at more than 700 plants in 30 states. They include facilities of such well-known companies as Hart Schaffner & Marx, Phillips-Van Heusen and Kayser-Roth. Many strikers were so unprepared for the transformation of their union from mouse to lion that some locals felt compelled to conduct informal crash courses to brief them on strike duties, and full-dress picketing was delayed for a day at some...