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Most Republicans are disturbed by the crisis into which their party has been dragged by the Watergate scandal. Conservatives, despite their general support of Richard Nixon, have been especially troubled. Among the most outspoken critics has been Barry Goldwater, the G.O.P.'s 1964 presidential candidate. Last week, in an interview with TlME's Hays Corey, the Senator from Arizona talked with his usual bluntness about Watergate's impact...
Died. Jeannette Rankin, 92, first woman ever elected to Congress; after a long illness; in Carmel, Calif. An outspoken suffragette and determined pacifist, Rankin was first sent to Congress by Montana voters in 1917, and was one of 50 Representatives who voted against declaring war on Germany. Returning for a second term in 1941, she again stunned her constituents by casting Congress' only vote against war with Japan. Though angry Montanans denied her another term, Rankin remained an active pacifist, and in 1968 led 5,000 women members of the Jeannette Rankin Brigade to Washington to protest the Viet...
...piloted Caledonian to the heights is Chairman Adam Thomson, an outspoken 46-year-old Scotsman who flew for the British Royal Navy in World War II, then spent 15 years as a commercial pilot before setting up Caledonian with five partners in 1961. Early on, Thomson established two major operating principles: he wanted the airline to be distinctly Scottish in character, so that it could emulate the success of other airlines with a distinct national identity; and he wanted a mix of chartered and scheduled services. In 1962 Caledonian became the first British airline to win a regular transatlantic charter...
...atmosphere at Windsor Castle could have been, to say the least, a little strained. As house guests for the night, Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip had invited Australia's forceful, independent-minded Prime Minister, Gough Whitlam, and his equally outspoken wife Margaret (TIME, March 26). It was the Queen's first encounter with Whitlam since he was elected last December on a mandate that included snipping some of Australia's ties to both the monarchy and the mother country...
Ewart Guinier '33, chairman of the Afro-American Studies Department and a member of the committee had previously been an outspoken opponent of Administration efforts to set up the DuBois Institute on a University-wide basis. Guinier contended that the Institute should be developed under the auspices of the Afro Department...