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John Lord, professor of Television and Film Arts at B.U. and a member of the hearing panel, said after the hearing's dinner recess that the jury was dissatisfied with the presentation of evidence...
...above-mentioned schools provide some of the most exciting football in the city. An exciting grid schedule is climaxed by the traditional Turkey day tiffs, featuring rivalries as old and exciting as Harvard-Yale. A few games, and you'll want to stay in Boston over the Thanksgiving recess just to witness these sports spectacles, filled with the school spirit of days gone...
High Prices. With Sam Ervin's committee still in recess, local preoccupations could get a hearing. Los Angeles and Denver laid plans for new mass transit systems. California's legislature voted to restore the death penalty for eleven specific categories of offenses, ranging from killing a policeman to causing a fatality by willfully wrecking a train; the state thus hoped to meet the Supreme Court's objections to indiscriminate capital punishment. South Dakota and Missouri debated ways to make their state governments more efficient. Portland, Ore., talked of saving electricity by eliminating high school football games...
...addition, they managed to rouse the interest of a potentially powerful ally: Connecticut Senator Lowell Weicker of the Ervin committee. Barker's daughter had singled him out "because he was the Senator in all the hearings I liked best." She appealed to him, and during the congressional recess Weicker went to Danbury twice to meet with the prisoners. He said that he was "upset to see the men who are least able to afford it sitting in jail while all the others wander around the country." Though the Senator added that he could make no promises, he has turned...
...members of Congress had scarcely unpacked their bags after returning from summer recess when President Nixon's challenge hit them. Fresh from talking to their constituents, they were well aware that the American public is impatient to get on with the country's business, but they deeply resented the President's attempt to blame them for a "very disappointing" showing. In fact, the record of the 93rd Congress is far from dismal-though unsatisfactory to the President-and the first sounds of the new session were sounds of irritation at the President's tactics...