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...come out for an underdog that doesn't deserve your support. Or if you see only one brand of stereotype any other looks unconventional, and therefore good. Kael is so convinced that the worst sell-out in movies is thinking big that she is apt to be lenient on the small scale, thought or no thought...
...Stuart Magruder, a former White House aide and deputy director of the re-election committee who is now an assistant to the Secretary of Commerce. McCord, who faces up to 45 years in prison for his part in the wiretapping, talked in hopes of getting a more lenient sentence from Federal Judge John J. Sirica. The judge agreed to postpone sentencing until after McCord finishes talking to the Senate committee and to a federal grand jury in Washington that is considering further indictments...
...appearance in a 1967 news conference, summed up the reports of many prisoners when he said: "I have been tortured, I have been beaten, I have been placed in solitary confinement, I have been harassed, I have been humiliated." Navy Lieut. Commander Rodney Knutson struck the same harsh note. "Lenient and humane treatment?" he asked. "Not on your life...
Lost. The determined Sirica then agreed not to sentence McCord until after he has heard everything that McCord has to say this week-a clear hint that full cooperation could lead to a more lenient sentence. That was McCord's main motive in writing. Cannily, Sirica gave five of the other defendants ample reason to tell more about the Watergate affair by temporarily assigning them maximum sentences but promising to review those sentences after three months. He even held out the possibility of suspended sentences. The maximum sentences, up to 40 years in prison and $50,000 fines, were...
...change the requirements of the Clean Air Act. He argues that California, the state with the worst auto pollution, has a more reasonable law, based on what he says are much more complete public health data than were available to Congress in 1970. It sets somewhat more lenient standards on pollutants (see chart) than those in the national...