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...Nail Down. Physicist Alan V. Larson, who helped write the Arkansas paper, insists that the panel of experts will be able to either "verify or challenge" Miss Woods' version of what happened. "They'll nail her right down," he predicts. Other experts are not so certain. Kenneth Stevens, a professor at M.I.T., agrees that "an amateurish" tampering job could be readily detected, but he is not sure that the panel will be able to say with certainty whether a specific tape has been altered...
...Rink, and if you can go by the description above and the result of last season's contest in the City of Brotherly Love, this should be a hell of a game. Last winter's encounter was an edge-of-your-seat, not-over-until-the-last-moment nail--biter with the Crimson coming out with a wild...
...elder Auden used to confide in his son that doctors never know why their patients get well. At Ox ford, from which he graduated in the late '20s, already a poet, Auden studied Freud and preached that poets must be "clinically minded." He liked to explain his own nail biting and chain smoking as "insufficient weaning." Later, he traveled in Germany during the rise of Nazism. "For the first time," he later recalled, "I felt the earth move." He went home to find Britain ("This country of ours where nobody is well") full of the Depression and indifference...
Much of the year, the Plunketts face a struggle even to reach their fading dream house. Since their lawyer did not bother to nail down the developer's responsibility for maintaining the ten-mile access road, he did not assume any. It remains unpaved, covered by snow in winter, by mud in spring...
...evidence implicating Colson in the Fielding office burglary is more complete. Investigators have acquired the transcript of a telephone call between Hunt and Colson on July 1, 1971 (which Colson had secretly recorded), in which they discussed the need to "nail" Ellsberg. Hunt was hired by the White House as a consultant one week later. Hunt then wrote a memo to Colson detailing ways to injure Ellsberg's public reputation. It suggested gaining access to the psychiatrist's Ellsberg file. Colson reportedly relayed the memo to Egil Krogh and David Young, the White House plumbers assigned to plug...