Word: oral
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Supreme Court, after hearing two hours of oral arguments, will decide whether the President must release 64 White House tape recordings (see story next page). The court's decision could come as early as this week, but might drag on for several weeks...
...high court then called for and received lengthy written briefs from both sides. After the oral arguments in the tense and jammed chamber-there were 6,000 requests for 300 seats-the wait for a decision begins...
...legal camps have been working under intense pressure to meet deadlines for two rounds of written briefs, then to prepare for the oral arguments. The President's lawyers have been operating under serious handicaps. His chief Watergate counsel, James St. Clair, overburdened on multiple fronts, was tied down to regular attendance at the Judiciary Committee's impeachment hearings. As the Supreme Court asked for briefs, Nixon's chief constitutional consultant, Charles Alan Wright, was off on a Baltic vacation cruise. Another top Nixon lawyer, J. Fred Buzhardt, was disabled by a heart attack...
Each year some 2,200 freshly graduated university students and experienced civil servants compete for 140 places at the E.N.A. in a three-month-long series of written, oral and athletic examinations. The hopefuls may be asked to speak extemporaneously on subjects as varied as, say, peaceful coexistence, a particular French law or Egyptian art. An applicant's manner counts for as much as his knowledge...
...Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman, Miller...