Word: probed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With scores of witnesses due to testify, the hearings are expected to last until next fall-perhaps longer, depending on what the probe unearths. The committee comprises four Democrats and three Republicans chosen by the Senate leadership of both parties...
...heart of the matter is the secret Nixon campaign contribution of $200,000 in cash that was paid to Stans by Financier Robert L. Vesco. The indictments assert that Mitchell and Stans reciprocated by aiding Vesco in his unsuccessful efforts to quash a Securities and Exchange Commission probe into his "looting" of a huge mutual-fund complex. The go-between was Harry L. Sears, head of Nixon's re-election drive in New Jersey, onetime Republican majority leader in the state's senate and a director of International Controls Corp., which Vesco dominated...
...almost three months after Nixon's victory and two months after the SEC issued its fraud charges against Vesco, the re-election committee returned the money. Perhaps by coincidence, the Washington Star-News reported five days before that the Government had begun an investigation into the donation. The probe began when an unidentified witness came forward in Manhattan earlier in January and volunteered to U.S. Attorney Whitney North Seymour Jr. that he would tell about the transaction...
Nixon's entire presidency is now coming under scrutiny and it is appearing in a light clearly unbearable to most Americans. The Ervin subcommittee should help probe the corruption's extent, but what is uncovered may require a radical remedy, and the House of Representatives ought to be formally exploring the possibility events may turn into a necessity...
...great influences on modern dance, Graham's art is intensely psychological, shot through with Freud and populated by Jungian archetypes. For her, dance is the way to probe the mysteries of the psyche. It was a childhood experience that persuaded her that movement is more revealing than words. When her father caught her in a lie, she asked how he knew. "No matter what words may say," he explained, "movement never lies." That observation became her lifelong credo...