Word: herbert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Standing before U.S. District Judge William Bryant in Washington last week, Watergate Defendant Herbert Porter, 36, made a solemn promise: "1 am absolutely positive in my heart, down to my toes, that I will never get into trouble again." The judge presumably believed him. Porter received the lightest sentence handed out to a Watergate conspirator: 30 days in jail. But then, Porter had participated in only a minor way in the Watergate coverup...
...House, mortally fear such subsidies as a free ride for challengers. Some conservatives fret that public financing, especially if it is combined with strict limitations on private contributions, would give a big edge to liberal, issue-oriented candidates who can mobilize unpaid volunteers-students, housewives, union members. As Herbert E. Alexander, director of the nonprofit Princeton-based Citizens' Research Foundation, points out: "For a person with money, it's easier to write out a check than it is to give time...
...Herbert Kalmbach, Nixon's personal lawyer, told the Senate Watergate committee in secret hearings that part of a $100,000 donation from Billionaire Hughes given in 1969 and 1970 to Bebe Rebozo, the President's good friend, was in turn given or lent for the personal use of two other Nixon intimates: Rose Mary Woods, the President's personal secretary, and Donald Nixon, his brother. This claim by Kalmbach directly contradicts sworn testimony by Rebozo and Miss Woods. Rebozo contends that the money was kept untouched for three years in a safety deposit box and then returned...
...dogma of equality of results turns up some bizarre arguments. In his recent book More Equality, Herbert J. Gans, a Columbia University sociologist, draws up a scenario for "cultural equality" that would eliminate "invidious status and other distinctions between 'highbrow,' 'middlebrow' and 'lowbrow' levels of taste." "A culturally equal society," writes Gans approvingly, "would thus treat all ways of expressing oneself and acting as equal in value, status and moral worth." But why should a taste for Lawrence Welk instead of Pablo Casals, or Jacqueline Susann instead of James Joyce, be held of equal...
...Give You Anything But Love (1928), the Oscar-winning The Way You Look Tonight (1936) and hundreds of other popular songs; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. During her career of nearly a half-century, Fields collaborated with such composers as Jerome Kern and Harold Arlen. With her brother Herbert she wrote the books for the Broadway hits Annie Get Your Gun (1946) and Redhead...