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...fired two weeks ago by President Nixon as special Watergate prosecutor, will be Pitt Professor of History and Institutions at Cambridge...
...light of the invasion of the office of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist by presidential forces, Senator Herman Talmadge was wondering whether Witness John Ehrlichman had any thoughts on the elder Pitt's famed celebration of the rights of the individual over the power of the executive. "I am afraid," said the former presidential adviser, "that has been considerably eroded over the years, has it not?" That bloodlessly arrogant candor was the climax of one of the most remarkable interludes of the televised hearings. Ehrlichman put forth a theory that would justify just about any presidential act, so long...
...given Ford all the information he needed to fake the "contact"-facts about the Pike family's Slavic origins or James Jr.'s precarious mental, health. During the séance, Ford purportedly made contact with a former colleague of Pike's, the Rev. Louis W. Pitt. Ford had said, somewhat with an air of mystery: "He tried, or people tried, twice to make a bishop of him, but failed." Spraggett observes that Ford had in his files a clip of Pitt's obituary in the New York Times in 1959, which mentioned that...
...second half which finally found Harvard rebounding from a seven-point deficit to tie the game with three minutes remaining. With 37 seconds left, Pitt went ahead by two. The Crimson brought the ball down court, Jenkins missed a five-footer, and Pitt was able to run out the clock as Harrison (maniacally) screamed at his players to foul...
...Pitt and Duke, on the other hand, Harvard will be decidedly the underdog. Duke's Blue Devil have only lost 15 home games in the last ten years...