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...ranks of even last-ditch Southern supporters were far from solid. Republican Senator John Tower of Texas, a Nixon loyalist, was described by an aide as being in a "state of anguish." While still maintaining that there was insufficient evidence to impeach, the aide admitted: "This thing is closing in on the President pretty hard right now." Said a Southern Senator: "You have to realize that these Southern members of Congress are not going to let their conservative leanings sway them if there is a clear moral issue involved. They are talking about the gutter language indicated in the transcript...
...official home of British Prime Ministers.* The country's electoral drama, the most suspenseful in memory, had begun four days before when British voters failed to give either Wilson's Labor Party or Prime Minister Edward Heath's incumbent Tories a majority in Parliament. In a last-ditch effort to stay in power, Heath tried to lure the resurgent Liberal Party (see following story) into a coalition government. But that proposal was essentially an exercise in wishful thinking on Heath's part. It quickly became clear that the Liberals had no intention of trading in their...
...tangible earnest of its willingness to cooperate, Coca-Cola Board Chairman J. Paul Austin gathered 30 business colleagues together last week and helped offset the remaining $30,000 debt of the Jackson campaign. In his defeat of Mayor Sam Massell last October, Jackson polled 21% of the white vote. That was a considerable achievement. Massell gave the contest an appallingly racist tinge by branding Jackson a do-nothing and a potential black firebrand in a last-ditch effort to scare up white support. The Massell strategy backfired with the voters and many whites quietly switched their allegiance to Jackson...
...economic crisis were not enough, London was hit last week by a new series of letter and car bombings. The first incident occurred when Brigadier Michael O'Cock, 54, an aide-decamp to Queen Elizabeth, opened a parcel at his London home and had part of his thumb blown off. Next day a bomb planted in a car near Westminster exploded shortly before 9 a.m., injuring 54 people. Police attributed the bombings to an apparent last-ditch effort by the Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army to sabotage installation Jan. 1 of Northern Ireland's new coalition...
Raynor's tying shot came with 21 seconds left. Harvard managed one poor last-ditch corner shot by Arnie Needleman and Beattie grabbed the rebound and called the fatal time...