Word: holtzmans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tried to keep their opening statements neutral, most revealed their position on impeachment right off, and at first there were few surprises. Wisconsin's Democrat Robert Kastenmeier contended that "President Nixon's conduct in office is a case history of the abuse of presidential power." New York Democrat Elizabeth Holtzman detected "a seamless web of misconduct so serious that it leaves me shaken." Texan Brooks claimed that the committee
Elizabeth Holtzman,33, challenged Emanuel Celler in 1972 for the congressional seat that he had held for 50 years, and her vigorous campaign convinced Brooklyn's 16th District that it was indeed time for a change. As a House freshman, she brought suit against the Defense Department and the Air Force to stop the bombing in Cambodia but lost in the Supreme Court. A graduate of Radcliffe and Harvard Law School, Holtzman spent summers working on civil rights cases in Georgia and served a three-year stint as an assistant to former New York Mayor John Lindsay...
Other notables on the list include tennis player Billie Jean King, Princeton President William G. Bowen, Congresswoman Elizabeth Holtzman '62 (D-N.Y.), New York Times Sunday editor Max Frankel, and basketball player Bill Bradley
...anti-insurrection law under which he was arrested. Other civil-rights workers had only slightly less eventful summers, and most came back to Harvard to tell about them. "Although a hundred years have passed since the Civil War, the Negro is virtually a slave in Baker County," Elizabeth Holtzman '62, then a first-year law student, now a U.S. Representative from Brooklyn, wrote in The Crimson. "It cannot be said, however, that the whites are free. Feeding on sadism, glorying in the license the color allows, they lead a depraved existence. Illiteracy, ignorance, poverty is their lot as well...
...Blue (20-9) early in the first game and won it 6-0, there was hope in Baltimore that the home team's strong pitching staff, starring Jim Palmer (22-9), would prevail over Oakland's aces. But then came Oakland's other stone walls, Ken Holtzman and Jim ("Catfish") Hunter. They and Reliever Rollie Fingers stood their ground in three of the final four games as obdurately as a goal-line defensive unit in that other sport...