Word: probe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harris poll reporting that public confidence in Congress had plummeted from 71% a year ago to 54%. When the Democratic caucus convened, Udall offered a resolution to strip Powell of his chairmanship, stipulating that he would nonetheless battle on the House floor to seat Powell pending a probe of his conduct. Declared Udall: "The people have the right to pick the Representative they want, but they do not have the right to tell the House who shall be chairman of a powerful committee...
...some insist on the absolute sanctity of human life, most believe that even killing is justifiable in some instances. The question is, where does one draw the line on the use of force? At hearings, draft boards pay close attention to the CO's answer to this question and probe for inconsistencies in his position...
U.C.L.A.'s Institute of Government and Public Affairs, now five years old, is studying the feasibility of subways for freeway-clogged Los Angeles, electric cars to ease smog. It also set up an "urban observatory" two days after the Watts riots to probe the causes of the violence. The University of California's Berkeley campus counts more than 400 community projects, many of them aimed at improving the education...
Chephren's Secret. It is not by chance that the pyramid probe will begin with Cheops; most, if not all, of its chambers and corridors have been found, and scientists will be able to check the efficacy of the cosmic-ray technique by comparing their findings with known locations of cavities within the pyramid. By May, if the Alvarez technique checks out, they will move the spark chamber to the nearby Second Pyramid or Pyramid of Chephren...
...Invasion of Privacy." Powell, who was also requested to testify, denounced the probe as a "conspiratorial tarnishment of my name" and "an invasion of privacy," and consented to appear only if 1) the subcommittee would investigate spending by all House committees and 2) the panel inserted in its record three journalistic articles on congressional travels, including a 1960 LIFE story reporting that Hays himself once charged 47 trips from Washington to his home area to a taxpayer-paid congressional account...