Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...father was embarrassed. "Son, they don't mean 'boring' like when we hear your grandfather recite the Gettysburg Address in Latin. It's just a tradition at Harvard that when the crowd particularly enjoys a half-time selection by the band they yell 'boring!' in honor of Leonard Boring, the first director of the Harvard Band...
...This April, the House Committee on Veterans Affairs viewed a television documentary produced in Chicago, where local veterans are particularly well-informed about Agent Orange. Fourteen Congressmen were sufficiently shocked to demand a report from the V.A. and the General Accounting Office. The Committee tentatively plans to hold hearings on Agent Orange this fall, but the V.A. still refuses even to hear the complaints of affected veterans...
...style for himself when he did this record. He imitates Cream lead singer Jack Bruce several times and in one of the oddest numbers, "Things Going On," he double-tracks his vocals and ends up sounding like Woody Guthrie and Johnny Cash singing a duet. But again, one can hear the roots of the whiskey-voiced gusto that made songs like "Sweet Home Alabama" worthwhile rock and roll...
...hear the soft-spoken judge tell the story, when he became the judge of Gulf County (pop. 11,000) he waded into a backwater Watergate. A land of slash pines, Cyprus swamps and oldtime backroom politics, it has been the fiefdom of U.S. Representative Robert ("He-Coon") Sikes, who last year was stripped of a congressional subcommittee chairmanship because of financial misconduct. Taunton publicly charged that former State Senator George Tapper engaged in an "elaborate, corrupt political scheme" with State Representative William J. ("Billy Joe") Rish, Sikes and others to profit from intricate land deals at the public...
...drifted off in opposite directions shortly after Willie was born. Willie was five when he got a guitar and a few rudimentary lessons from his grandfather, a blacksmith who had taken mail-order music courses. Soon Willie was pressing his ear against an old wooden Philco radio to hear Grand Ole Opry. At 13 he formed his own band-with his father, then living in a town 40 miles away, on fiddle. He left high school at 16, was mustered out of the Air Force after eight months because of back problems, and quickly married a Waco carhop named Martha...