Word: man
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ashtrays, place mats, coffee mugs). The owner of Yarborough's car is Junior Johnson, one of the roughriding pioneers of the sport, and their sponsors are Busch beer and Citicorp. Campaigning a stock car today costs as much as $1.2 million a year. Yarborough is supported by a 17-man staff, including a pit crew of seven. They not only tune the 560-plus horsepower engine of his Oldsmobile to howling perfection, but perform miracles in the pits. They have changed two tires and filled the gas tank in 12.5 seconds, and have actually replaced an engine in mid-race...
...bias against any news or newsmaker that might threaten the interests of the Chandlers or their land-holding friends had become a joke to outsiders. Humorist S.J. Perelman recalled stopping at Albuquerque during one train trip: "I asked the porter to get me a newspaper and unfortunately the poor man, hard of hearing, brought me the Los Angeles Times...
...man was John Joseph Sirica, and it is a mark of his integrity that he waited so long to present Watergate from the other side of the bench. Perhaps he waited too long. After all the President's men have told their tales, there would seem to be few revelations left. Yet, in this appealing account, Sirica does set the record straight, not only about the judicial words but also about the sentences...
Even now, however, the man refuses to lower his fists. In a cascade of speculation, Sirica declares that if Nixon had refused to surrender the tapes, he would have been held in contempt. Fines of $25,000 to $50,000 would have been levied every day. In the book's most belligerent section, the judge wishes that Nixon had indeed been indicted and gone to trial. If convicted in Sirica's court, he would have been sentenced to jail, regardless of the psychological consequences to the country. The judge, whose penchant for stiff sentences earned him the sobriquet "Maximum John...
Save for these disclosures. To Set the Record Straight adds little to history, and the jaded onlooker may be inclined to agree with Novelist Arnold Bennett that "the price of justice is eternal publicity." Still, the man justifies the autobiography. For in its pages, Sirica, 75, provides an ironic paradigm. The obscure childhood, the wayward parent, the indomitable will, the tense trials and, at last, the public recognition: we have been here before. Until 1973 that was the Richard Nixon story as told by Richard Nixon. It is not surprising that Sirica voted for him. What remains reassuring is that...