Word: hughe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...advisers went out of their way to praise President Ford as a decent, well-intentioned man, convention oratory repeatedly linked him and Richard Nixon. Watergate, expected to be almost a subliminal issue, was cited in varied pointed ways. "Who broke and entered in the night?" asked New York Governor Hugh Carey on opening day. "Who opened the mails? Who tapped the phones?" Hubert Humphrey, in the second night's most resounding old-style oratory, drew sustained applause by assailing "these self-appointed experts on law-and-order" who took crime "off the street and put it in the White...
...defendant's Sixth Amendment rights-including moving or delaying the trial, careful questioning of potential jurors, sequestering impaneled jurors and ordering prosecutors, police and court officials not to talk to the press. But for trial judges tempted to gag the press directly, the message seems clear. Nebraska Judge Hugh Stuart still felt that his gag order had been "appropriate," but he also said, "I must have erred since I was reversed...
REBELS AND REDCOATS by Hugh Rankin and George Scheer. 639 pages. Mentor Books. $2.50. This is the one book to have if you're having only one. The authors have rifled the diaries, journals, letters and reports of hundreds of participants and woven them into a totally absorbing, seamless war narrative that a novelist might envy. The voices range from Joseph Plumb Martin, an irrepressible private ("The grapeshot and langrage flew merrily") to General Washington, who was often prey to justifiable private gloom. (All might be well, he reflected in 1776, if his soldiers "would behave with tolerable resolution...
...When Bryant's tests were reported to the American Philosophical Society, the A.P.S. formed a committee to arrange with the "owner of a torpedo or torporific eel [to] determine the nature of the shocks which it communicates." The offered price: ? 3. Physician Hugh Williamson later discovered, among other things, that the eel can stun fish at a distance, and "it can give a small shock, a severe one or not at all, just as circumstances may require...
...bill faces formidable legislative hurdles. Indeed, three Senators who voted to send the measure to the floor, Democratic Whip Robert Byrd of West Virginia, Minority Leader Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania and Republican Charles Mathias of Maryland, are avowed opponents of divestiture. They merely wanted to bring the issue up for a full-scale debate in the Senate, which last October rejected a similar proposal by a surprisingly close vote of 54 to 45. The bill's fate is also uncertain in the House, which has not yet even held committee hearings on the matter...