Word: hughe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...FEAR of futility pervades these gestures. Pennsylvanian Hugh Scott, the senate minority leader has been overwhelmed with pro-impeachment letters, but when the White House announced that two of the tapes were missing, he simply said, "The machine age is not perfect." And the popular "honk for impeachment" demonstrations just don't have any thrill to them when the president is two full hours down I-95 or in San Clemente or Key Biscayne. No blast from a car's horn in Philadelphia can rattle the White House windows. There is no satisfaction in booing Nixon from a distance...
Steven B. Farber '63, assistant to President Bok, said yesterday that he had forwarded materials provided by the Arkansas Community Organization for Reform Now (ACORN), an environmental group that opposes the construction of the power plant, to Hugh Calkins '45, chairman of the Corporation Sub-committee on Shareholder Responsibility...
Still, for years her British compatriots have known her chiefly as one of the most beautiful of the Beautiful People, wife of the rich M.P. Sir Hugh Fraser and mother of six. Then, to the astonishment of nearly everybody, at age 37, she produced a massive, readable, academically respectable biography of Mary Queen of Scots. Now, nearly five years later, as if intent on proving that her first success was no accident, the lady has delivered a fatter and more scholarly study of Oliver Cromwell, the florid, slovenly country gentleman who became Britain's first Lord Protector...
Even for the reader and television viewer who has been hooked on Watergate, there is some value in this tidy package. Who can clearly remember what John Caulfield said to James McCord while parked in a car beside the Potomac, or how Jeb Magruder tried to talk Hugh Sloan into committing perjury? That kind of thing still matters...
...Senate Rules Committee's questioning of Ford made it quite clear that Congress is examining him as the next president and Ford, in his testimony, made it equally clear that he is being careful to divorce himself from the president's Watergate affairs. And Senate Minority leader Hugh Scott (R-Pa.)--probably Nixon's strongest and most vocal supporter through the Watergate crisis--was reported by one of his aides to be "considering the damage to the Republican Party which could result if Nixon remains in the White House...