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Many who believe Nixon participated in the cover-up and do not think he should be impeached are fearful of an Agnew presidency. Many Democrats would not want to see Agnew inherit the presidency because that might place him in a strong position for election in 1976. Decision Research Corp., a New England polling organization, explains that "the seriousness of the whole idea of impeachment, and of Agnew taking over, accounts for the large number of people who think the President was involved but are unwilling to advocate impeachment...
...coming out of adolescence. They could feel the protest of '69 tug at the roots of the system that wouldn't budge for us in our formative years. And they could watch sexism gruelled on a vast public witness stand. All this means is that this later generation could inherit Feminism as a personal guideline, because it was established for them publicly four years ago. They could internalize the political legacy of '69 as a given...
There he founded a student pre-law club, played the part of a redneck witness in a campus production of Inherit the Wind and wrote a senior thesis on "The Social Responsibilities of the Political Novelists." He earned a master's degree in public administration from American University in 1962 and his law degree from Georgetown...
...left a $100,000 trust fund which his son was to receive at age 45. If the son died before then, with out having any children, the money would go to a school. Berston's mother, from whom his father was divorced in 1946, was effectively excluded from inheriting the trust. But Berston, now 29, single and living in Minnesota, wanted to provide for her. In an inspired, topsy turvy legal gambit, he moved to adopt his mother, who is 53. A trial judge denied his petition apparently because the adoption was merely designed to frustrate the father...
...pastor complains that business is not all that bad. The problem, he says, is that the Government will not let him count as assets $14 million that the cathedral will inherit from people who have written the church into their wills. He insists that cathedral investors are not worried about their investments; they are pious folk who regard the church's securities as a contribution to gospel spreading. As Humbard told TIME Correspondent Richard Ostling last week: "We have never missed an interest payment. We're not in default with our people. If Government regulators try to force...