Word: probed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Television, like history, has no precedent for Watergate. There have been other scandals and hearings-notably Estes Kefauver's crime probe of 1951 and the Army-McCarthy confrontation of 1954-but those took place before the epoch of the Living Room War and the three-set family. Yet even back in the '50s, when TV aerials decorated only half the American roofs, Joseph Welch, hero of the McCarthy hearings, warned: "Perhaps we should never televise a hearing until we are as completely adjusted to television as to our newspapers, until such time as no judge, no juror...
Meanwhile, in Los Angeles separate investigations of the record industry were being conducted by the FBI, the Internal Revenue Service, the Bureau of Customs and narcotics agents. Federal investigators on both coasts were extending their probe beyond Columbia Records to take a broad look at the record industry...
...officials of obstructing the FBI's investigation of Watergate. Specifically, they were said to have asked the CIA officials to get in touch with FBI Acting Director L. Patrick Gray III and tell him to go easy in his investigation on the ground that his agency's probe might expose CIA operations...
...investigating his books for the past two years turned over the results of the audit to the tax agency's intelligence division for investigation of suspected criminal fraud. And a former member of a federal anticrime strike force accused high Administration officials of calling off a grand jury probe into the "laundering" of illegal contributions to Nixon's 1968 campaign by the Barnes-Champ Advertising Agency, which was controlled by Smith...
Determined to avoid aborting the entire mission, the astronauts suited up again, depressurized their cabin, removed the probe assembly and attempted to make repairs. After two hours of effort they finally managed to dock successfully. On Saturday, they were to try to enter Skylab and attempt to put a sun screen over the orbital workshop's exposed skin...