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Last week he reluctantly directed the committee to conduct full hearings on whether Nixon should be impeached. Albert does not want to believe that impeachment might happen. "I think it would be a traumatic experience for the nation," he says. "I would lean over backward to give the President the benefit of the doubt." Although he has generally supported his foreign policies, Albert has never admired Nixon as a man. Nonetheless, he declares: "I am not doing this out of animosity for Nixon. I have an overwhelming constitutional responsibility to see that we in the House...
...sister-in-law had suddenly leaped from the dinner table in his apartment. She was speechless, her hands were clutching at her chest, she was becoming faint and turning blue. What could he do? The symptoms were all too familiar to Prutting. He calmly advised his caller to lean the woman over a chair, pound her on the back and reach down her throat with his middle and index fingers to dislodge the obstruction. The doctor heard loud thumping sounds, and soon a relieved voice came back on the Line. "It was only a piece of beef," said the executive...
...Hunt, Choo Choo Coleman, Hot Rod Kanehl, Roger Craig, A1 Jackson, Jim Hickman--this is a litany from somebody who never seemed to collect baseball cards. With Stengel in the dugout, these simple nobodies became a dangerous crowd of misfits. It was an easy charm. For these were lean years in New York: there were the AFL's Titans, a truly awful football team; the Knicks, who couldn't buy a bucket; and the Rangers, who perennially challenged the Boston Bruins for early draft picks...
...Bonnie Raitt is earthy, then Jackson Browne is slick. He is tall and lean, his hair falls perfectly parted, he sports just a taste of hillbilly in his voice. Friday night Browne did a 40-minute set of his own songs. Plagued by technical difficulties--the worst of them an amp which turned his acoustic guitar into a tinny electric--and uneasy over his place on the bill, Browne seemed uncomfortable on stage and unsatisfied with his band's performance...
Only when Kelly denies his work this imagery of encounter and compression does it lean to dullness, as in a set of large rectangular panels, each painted one flat primary color, which have the look of august and boring decoration and cannot hold...