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...Nothing would make me happier," allowed Elliot Richardson during his oath-of-office ceremonies at the White House, "than to serve as Secretary of Commerce until January 20,1981-thus putting to rest the notion that I can't hold a job." Richardson, 55, is a former Secretary of Defense, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, Attorney General, Under Secretary of State and the U.S. Ambassador to Britain. "I may be at this very moment entering the Guinness Book of World Records as the most sworn-in of Americans," quipped Richardson. "If I hadn't been moving...
Zimmerer will drive both sleds again. He will have two weight men for ballast in the four, and brakemen under oath not to slow him down. The principal challenge could come from the Swiss, East Germans or the impetuous Italians. Says Italian Team Director Giorgio Galli: "We often have to keep some of our boys in the hospital longer than we should to make sure they don't get back into a sled prematurely." Not even warm weather deters them. In the summer the Italians replace their runners with wheels and career madly down mountain slopes and roads...
Unless the former Sanitas officials (who have been charged by the Securities and Exchange Commission with misusing corporate funds and defrauding shareholders) testify under oath that Sanitas paid or approached a specific person at Harvard, it is doubtful that any new information concerning the allegation will surface...
...defense's prize witness was Gerald Ford, who appeared on video tape. His account - given under oath in Washington - was the first testimony ever presented by a sitting President in either a criminal or civil case. Dramatically, Ford told how he had been confronted by Fromme. "I saw a hand come through the crowd," he said, adding, "in the hand there...
When Aurelia Plath told her eight-year-old daughter Sylvia that her father was dead, the child said, "I am never going to speak to God again." When she came home from school that day she presented her mother with an oath to be signed: "I promise never to marry again...