Word: kept
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...House Minority Leader John Rhodes announced that he would make a statement early this week on his position on impeachment. He carefully kept his own counsel on what he would say till the last moment, but he was known to be anguished over the evidence, and the mere possibility of so important a conservative Republican leader abandoning Nixon doubtless deeply alarmed the White House. Rhodes' support cannot save Nixon in the House, but his defection could very well seal his fate in the Senate...
...Geneva negotiations, exerting America's growing influence on the Eastern Mediterranean. Kissinger was on the telephone frequently with British Foreign Secretary James Callaghan as well as with Premier Ecevit in Ankara, who studied international affairs under Kissinger at Harvard in 1957. Kissinger suggested the compromise that kept last week's Geneva talks from failing. When the Turks objected to the eventual communiqué's calling for immediate withdrawal of foreign troops from the island, he proposed it read "timely and phased reduction of forces." The Turks accepted the wording, since it gave them more time to keep...
...landed a $30-a-week job as a mail clerk at MGM, and kept his ambition in fighting trim by calling all the executives by their first names. "Hiya, Joe," he grinned at Producer Joe Pasternak, who stopped for a moment, then threw out the classic line: "Hey, kid -how'd ya like to be in pictures?" Pasternak gave Nicholson a script, and told him where to show up for the screen test. Nicholson looked the script over but did not realize that he was supposed to memorize his lines. The test was a disaster, and Nicholson was back...
...movie is largely the doing of Ken Shapiro, who directed, helped write the script, and kept most of the good parts for himself...
...carping disappeared on succeeding days. CBS Newsmen Walter Cronkite, Bruce Morton and Mudd kept largely out of sight while committee members concluded their opening statements on Thursday. NBC's John Chancellor and Carl Stern (a law-school graduate) helped clarify Friday's complex procedural wrangles as the committee hammered out acceptable articles of impeachment. Sessions were not interrupted by commercials (a condition decreed by the House); interviews in the meeting room were forbidden. PBS conducted scholarly post-mortems on each session, drawing on outside experts and a battery of law professors...