Word: leaks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Acting to maintain the President's momentum, his aides lashed out at Chairman Peter Rodino and his committee. Patrick Buchanan, Nixon's special consultant and once a wily practitioner of the anonymous news leak, assailed the "nameless, faceless character assassins on the House Judiciary Committee." Another adroit news manipulator, White House Communications Director Ken Clawson, charged that leaks from the committee were part of "a purposeful effort to bring down the President with smoke-filled-room operations by a clique of Nixon-hating partisans." Deputy Press Secretary Gerald Warren joined the chorus, deploring "prejudicial and one-sided information...
...ransom demand is well over a million dollars worth of uncut diamonds-exactly the amount that Caine's intelligence unit was about to use to counter an arms-smuggling plot. The fact that the kidnapers know precisely what sum to ask for means there has been a leak at the highest level of security...
Harvard athletic facilities, with a couple of noteworthy exceptions, are not all that good. The Bubble burst, the swimming pool situation is poor, and the IAB would collapse if it had any decency. But at least the swimming pools don't leak, and the lights work in the squash courts (some of the squash courts leak, but that is another matter and another way, the winter way, to break a leg at racquet sports...
...yacht Great Britain II was a week's sail from Capetown when her fresh-water tanks sprang a leak and ran dry. Forced to live on a trickle of water distilled in a pressure cooker, the crew reached Capetown so weak that it took twelve men to lower and stow the big, billowy spinnaker. Between Capetown and Sydney the skipper of a French yawl and a British crewman on an Italian vessel were lost overboard in storms, and a Mexican boat suffered a knockdown. A British sailor drowned east of Sydney when he lost his footing and fell into...
President Bok's decision this week to allow Eliot House to accept an alumnus's offer of support for an ambitious arts program seems to have plugged for the moment a small leak in Harvard's "every tub on its own bottom" method of fund-raising...