Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...grand jury's direction, members of Jaworski's staff also gave to Sirica a locked and bulging briefcase. It is believed to contain transcripts of White House tape recordings, documents and other evidence that was gathered painstakingly?and often despite dogged resistance from Nixon?by Jaworski and his fired predecessor, Archibald Cox. The evidence almost certainly is meant to support any charges made in the report against Nixon. The briefcase is also expected to reach the House impeachment investigators if that should be the course Sirica elects...
Despite speculation that the marginal grade would be wholly eliminated, it was changed to a "satisfactory" grade that unlike its predecessor would be kept confidential and would not remain on a student's record. However, a merely "satisfactory" student would still have to make up his work, and his "satisfactory" might keep him from graduating...
Perhaps in recognition of that unhappy fact, Washington has been talking about the Mexico City meeting in rather guarded terms. Notably missing has been any grand verbal sweep of the Yankee sombrero-the rhetorical overkill that, for instance, heralded the southern tour of Kissinger's predecessor William Rogers as the most important visit by any American Secretary of State in more than 40 years. Such hyperbole -which said "everything without doing anything," in the words of one Latin diplomat-has turned many Latin Americans into skeptics about U.S. intentions...
...also seems likely that Rosovsky's new report will encourage considerable input from students--if only because that failing by its predecessor raised considerable controversy among undergraduates...
...Jane Powell, 44, will make her Broadway debut on schedule this week in the '20s hit show Irene despite a behind-the-scenes handicap. Director Gower Champion, busy with a new musical, declined to rehearse with Jane. Luckily, an interim replacement was at hand: Debbie Reynolds, 41, her predecessor as Irene. "Debbie helped me in every possible way," said a delighted Jane. "She kept people from confusing me, and even found a wig to match my hair." Gratitude aside, Powell intends to leave her own stamp on the role of the plucky piano tuner who makes it to Long...