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...months the Senate Ethics Committee has agonized over what to do about Georgia Democrat Herman Talmadge, who was charged with extensive financial wrongdoing, including filing $43,000 worth of improper expense accounts. In effect, the committee wanted to recommend that the Senate censure Talmadge without using that fateful word. "Censure" is a punishment that has been applied only seven times in Senate history; the last occasion was in 1967, when the Senate passed judgment on Connecticut Democrat Thomas Dodd for pocketing campaign funds...
Then, said Smith, Purvis ran up and ordered: "Back away from that man. I want to talk to him."Pretty Boy glared and cursed. At which point, said Smith, Purvis turned to G-Man Herman Hollis and said: "Fire into him." Hollis obeyed, said Smith, killing Floyd with a burst from a tommy...
...series of 20 World War II volumes have passed 780,000 and are still coming in. Meanwhile, a mere list of already available books on the war fills up a dozen type-crammed pages of Books in Print. In light of it all, it is no surprise that Herman Wouk's latest fiction, War and Remembrance, has occupied the bestseller list for 44 weeks, nor that this year's big novel, William Styron's Sophie's Choice, is haunted by echoes of the Holocaust...
...elected mayor of a major Southern city, Jackson brought a talent for improvisational politics to bear on the construction of Atlanta's new Midfield Airport terminal, which, when it opens in 1980, will be the largest air passenger building in the world. Among other things, Jackson persuaded Georgia Senator Herman Talmadge to summon Georgia Congressmen and federal, state and local officials concerned with the project to a meeting in his Washington office. There they managed to break through a jurisdictional logjam that had stalled the project in the planning stage for eleven years...
...Herman Brood and HIS Wild Romance and Billy Falcon's Burning Rose. July...