Word: picks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This week its deliberations on other proposed articles will begin. An article charging the President with abusing the powers of his office seems likely to pick up the same margin of sup port, possibly with the addition of Republican McClory. He is also expected to introduce an article of his own, charging Nixon with contempt of Congress for failing to respond to the Judi Committee's subpoenas...
...protested: "The President didn't, in righteous indignation, rise up and say, 'Get out of here. You are in the office of the President of the United States. How can you talk about blackmail and bribery and keeping witnesses silent?' . . . And then throw them out of his office and pick up the phone and call the Department of Justice and tell them there is obstruction of justice going on. But my President didn't do that. He sat there, and he worked and worked to try to cover this thing up so it wouldn't come to light...
...Jenner Jr. Indeed, there are so many specific allegations against the President that five different sets of impeachment articles were prepared by the staff and a few Congressmen on the committee. The staff's aim was to give the members most of the possible choices. The committee will apparently pick and choose from all five sets as it makes its historic decisions...
...York Yacht Club, holder of the Cup, is not scheduled to pick an American defender until final trials next month; it is still too soon for the aluminum backers to abandon ship. Optimism, though, is difficult to find in the Mariner camp. Brit Chance's boat was in drydock last week undergoing major surgery. The reason: her radical design -a hull that had a blunt, "fastback" stern instead of the traditional tapered underbody-simply had not worked...
...given this difficulty, the remainder of the cast is good to excellent. William Hutson as Biff is particularly effective in his scenes with his brother Happy. Special mention must be made of Mark Swiney as Happy, the only one in the family who has learned his trade, who picks up the scraps of Willy's dreams and sells them on the small-time circuit for twice the price. It ain't a great life, but he gets by. Swiney catches hold of the character and he never lets go the entire time he is on the stage. He has obviously...