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...asked to be ready to marry an important unnamed Government official the next day. Only an hour before the ceremony was Judge Thomas certain who it would be. While the judge waited, Kissinger played host at a select pre-wedding reception Saturday afternoon at the State Department's Madison Room. The few friends, invited only that morning, included General Brent Skowcroft, a member of the National Security Council, and Columnist Joseph Alsop. Also there were the Secretary's two children, Elizabeth, 15, and David, 12, by his first marriage, his brother Walter, and Nancy's brother David...
Sato's performance at Springfield topped 42 others, and gained her a place at the AAU National swimming and diving competition next week in Madison, Wisconsin...
...National Invitational Tournament selected four teams yesterday for the annual college basketball event at Madison Square Garden. The four were Hawaii, St. John's, Massachusetts, and Manhattan. Thirteen teams remain to be chosen for the tourney, held March...
Treason and bribery, it was readily agreed during the debate on the Constitution, would be obvious grounds for impeaching a President. What else? "Abusing his power," Edmund Randolph of Virginia suggested. James Madison favored protection against "incapacity, negligence or perfidy in the chief magistrate." But when George Mason proposed adding "maladministration" to treason and bribery, Madison thought the word "so vague as to be equivalent to a tenure during the pleasure of the Senate." Borrowing a catchall phrase from English usage, Mason thereupon substituted "high crimes and misdemeanors." Without debate, this curious phrase, which has bedeviled political discourse ever since...
RICHARD RYNEN Madison...