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...after Tricia because she is the daughter of the President." His parents are Social Register New York; his father Howard, who likes to be called "Colonel," is a lawyer who served in the Army Air Corps during World War II. A forebear, Robert R. Livingston, administered the oath of office to President-elect George Washington. Eddie Cox wears tweed jackets and speaks in impeccable prep-school accents. He earned the wry nickname "Fast Eddie" at Manhattan's Trinity School-after a dissolute pool shark in The Hustler, whom the studious Cox scarcely resembles-because he was a stickler...
When former Representative Charles Longstreet Weltner of Atlanta, the 39-year-old great grandson of the author of the Confederate Constitution, gave up his Democratic nomination for a third term in Congress rather than abide by a party loyalty oath that would have required him to support Lester Maddox, a colleague in the House commented, "We may have to wait another 50 years before we get another Charlie Weltner...
Walter Byers, executive director of the NCAA, attacked agents who market athletes' talents and hinted the NCAA may pursue legal action in the future as a means of getting ABA commissioner Jack Dolph under oath...
...Oath. Late in September, however -for no clear reason-Smith vetoed the bills he himself had supported. He explained later that the legislation "didn't do what those interested in the banking business thought to be best." After his veto, the stock of National Bankers Life started going down; the latest selling price was 2½. The SEC investigation, begun as a routine check into a Dallas firm's records, was soon going full pace. When officials questioned Governor Smith in December, he declined to give evidence under oath. Smith maintains, however, that he has done nothing wrong...
...high-ceilinged courtroom where the ceremonies took place was packed with blacks who came to see the ragtag parade and oath taking that symbolized their assumption of power. On the way, the Druid High School Band kept cadence in the cold morning for the dignitaries riding in a mule-drawn wagon and the float covered with green and white napkins topped by a tinfoil telescope that proclaimed "Greene County-Focus of the Nation...