Word: jannings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...another two hours, the famous black box, the repository for the nation's military codes-an ugly talisman that signifies the transfer of power in the nuclear age-was left behind with a military aide. It was the first time it had been away from Nixon since Jan. 20, 1969, the day he had taken charge of it from Lyndon Johnson...
...Gerald R. Ford, Jan...
...about the possibility of a sudden vacancy in the White House since the first batch of tape transcripts was released April 30. ABC News President Elmer Lower began looking ahead even earlier: in June 1973 he recommended that outlines of coverage of a Nixon departure be drawn up; by Jan. 14 of this year, the network's SEEP (Special Events Emergency Plan) was fleshed out on paper. Prepared over several months, the New York Times's "quit package" grew to seven ready-to-print pages on the Nixon presidency...
Still another potential controversy is looming: what to do in case the trial is not completed before the new 94th Congress is convened next Jan. 3. Mansfield, who is planning a six-day-a-week, seven-hour-a-day schedule for the trial in the hope of getting it through by Christmas, wants the new Senate to carry on where the old one left off. "The Senate is a continuing body, and we wouldn't have to start the trial over again," he argues. He plans to provide seats in the chamber for new Senators elected in November...
...Wednesday night at the Tufts Arena Theater is not without its moments of illumination. Unfortunately, the two principals playing Willy and his wife Linda are very weak. And in a play which pivots so strongly on those two figures, the weakness is fatal. Neither Norman Goodman as Willy nor Jan Lewis as Linda seem to have crawled inside their characters to think through the indisputable logic which leads those characters to say one thing rather than another at any point. They seem to focus their eyes always on the wrong thing--which is to say, on something other than what...