Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were installed, reams of paper piled up, most of it transcripts and computer printouts from the Ervin committee. But there were also ample contributions from other congressional committees that have been Investigating aspects of Watergate. By week's end all that was missing was a paper shredder, an item requested, but vetoed by the House Administration Committee on the ground that paper shredders had already figured too prominently in the Watergate scandal...
...Raleigh Industries, the bicycle manufacturers, worked without heat or light so that all available power could be switched to the production line. A snuff-making firm in Sheffield regeared its production from electric power to a water wheel first used in 1737. There was panic buying of some items, notably bread and toilet paper, and camp suppliers did a booming business in butane lamps and stoves. A Battersea candlestick maker turned out a million candles a day instead of his usual 250,000. His most popular item: a wax effigy of Prime Minister Edward Heath...
William B. Saxbe, who was sworn in as U.S. Attorney General last week, scorned the subpoenas as a catchall amounting to a "fishing expedition." But the committee's deputy chief counsel, Rufus Edmisten, maintained that every item demanded was relevant to the investigation. This week the committee intends to ask Federal Judge John J. Sirica to order Nixon to surrender seven tapes-the same recordings previously given to a Watergate grand jury and also subpoenaed by the committee last summer. Later the committee will decide whether to request that Sirica force the President to turn over additional tapes...
Such earnest digging has also borne fruit in CHNS local stories. Matthews filed an item for papers in Pennsylvania revealing that a reporter for the Scranton Tribune also earned $5,000 a year as a "public relations assistant" to Pennsylvania Representative Joseph Mc-Dade. The Tribune accepted its employee's moonlighting calmly, but McDade sniped that the CHNS disclosure was "the worst story I've seen in ten years...
...last item that has stirred the sharpest criticism and inspired an investigation by Republican Senator Lowell Weicker of Connecticut, who has promised to forward the results of his investigation to the Internal Revenue Service and to demand action on the case this week. The White House claims -without substantiation so far-that the President merely followed "the tradition of his six predecessors" in giving his private papers to the Government...