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...whom the committee calls as it attempts to determine what charges, if any, to lodge against the President. Disputing St. Clair's argument, Rodino contended that his committee's investigation is not a trial or an adversary proceeding; it is akin to a fact-finding grand jury probe in which potential defendants are not represented by counsel because no one has yet been charged. Yet Republicans on the committee had a point in noting that fairness would be better perceived by the public if St. Clair was allowed to quiz witnesses. In at least four of the dozen...
...Nixon campaign. He testified about attending a meeting with Vesco on March 8, 1972, in Stans' Washington office. According to Richardson, Vesco told Stans that he wanted to make a donation to the Nixon campaign but that he had a problem -the SEC investigation. Vesco claimed that the probe was really an SEC vendetta against him and his company...
...tracked far beyond the research labs where they were first detected. Today, ultrasonics, otherwise known as the science of noiseless sound, has become one of the more versatile tools of technology. Vibrating at roughly 18,000 or more cycles per second, quiet bursts of ultrasonic energy can probe the ocean depths, clean teeth, cut through steel, even look for brain damage. In their latest incarnation, ultrasonic waves are being put to work in a novel sewage-treatment system...
Boyish-looking Richard J. Davis, 27, headed the probe of the efforts of Donald H. Segretti and others to sabotage Democratic presidential campaigners. Davis has also helped with the investigation of ITT. He graduated with the highest average in his class at Columbia Law School, served as clerk to Federal Judge Jack B. Weinstein in New York and specialized in corruption investigations as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in New York for a year...
...voyage of 20 months across more than half a billion miles of the solar system. Still another unmanned spacecraft, Mariner 10, is speeding toward a flyby of Venus and later will provide the first closeup view of Mercury-man's first two-planet survey with a single space probe...