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...result, they form a huge disk-shaped magnetic field; the electrons and protons that swirl within it create powerful electrical currents that may discharge lightning bolts all the way to Io, the innermost of Jupiter's nine moons...
...Nixons have always been intensely private people, keeping their own counsel and concealing their innermost feelings behind the masks they present to the public. Last week, as the pressures on the President mounted, each member of this tightly knit family withdrew briefly even from the others, as if only in isolation could the strength be summoned to face the approaching ordeal...
...nuclear self-destruction. He suggests that we program into the computers that aim our intercontinental missiles the instruction not to fire until we have acquired complete information about one living thing. He even offers as a candidate for this honor a protozoan called Myxotricha paradoxa, which lives in the innermost reaches of Australian termites' digestive tracts...
...House Judiciary Committee be gan to climb out of its rut and seemed ready to quicken the march toward impeachment. Charles Colson, a former member of Nixon's innermost circle, confessed his criminality and professed a desire to tell all that he knows about Watergate. It was revealed that a federal grand jury had named the President as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Watergate cover-up case - the first official citation of direct criminal association ever brought against a U.S. President. Adding to Nixon's judicial problems, a federal judge openly, threatened to cite him for contempt...
Though he was one of the stalwarts of the Nixon Administration, privy to its innermost secrets, eloquent in its defense, John Connally was barely grazed by the Watergate scandals as they unfolded. But last week he appeared perilously close to being dealt what may be a politically fatal blow. Despite his denials that he has done anything improper, he is under investigation by a Watergate grand jury and faces possible indictment for his role in the raising of campaign contributions from the free-spending milk producers. The Texas whirlwind may have good reason to start crying over spilt milk...