Word: richardsons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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SPIRO AGNEW. Nixon revealed that he had been unwilling to rely solely on the recommendations of Attorney General Elliot Richardson after an investigation was begun of kickbacks paid by Maryland contractors to his Vice President. Nixon asked that Assistant Attorney General Henry Petersen, a Democrat, make his own investigation of the case. "There was no secret Richardson and Agnew didn't like each other. There was no secret that Richardson had ambitions to be Vice President or President in 1976, and earlier if possible." After Petersen concurred that the charges would lead to a recommendation of a prison sentence...
Most of the other presidents feel the rules are unnecessary because their film societies are not in direct competition with the Cambridge theaters. Martha Richardson of the Harvard Audio-Visual department also remarked that when people want a professional showing, they go to a professional theater and not a dining hall...
...beat speeding tickets is to use a miniaturized radar-emission detector. Mounted on a dashboard, it flashes a light and then sounds a high-pitched beep when the vehicle approaches a radar trap. "This is the fastest-growing area of consumer electronics," says Cy Robinson of a Richardson, Texas, firm called Autotronics that sells "Snoopers" ($89.95) and "Super Snoopers" ($149.95). Super Snooper claims to be able to sniff out "over-the-hill and around-the-corner detection...
Biographer Joanna Richardson, a British specialist in 19th century French authors, shows that it was politics more than literature that made Hugo a living myth. After Louis Napoleon Bonaparte betrayed the republic in his 1851 coup d' état, the writer, originally a Bonaparte supporter, raged against the new emperor from exile. When Napoleon III finally fell in 1870, Olympic returned a hero...
Unfortunately, Richardson analyzes only one side of the complex Hugo-the bad side. Where two interpretations of the man's intentions are available, she chooses the unflattering. On the basis of one antagonistic witness, for instance, she argues that Hugo first turned on Louis Napoleon because he was not offered a suitable Cabinet post. In her discussion of Notre Dame de Paris, she observes how "[Hugo] presents the rabble with the gusto and the crudity of Breughel." Anyone who can turn Breughel into a pejorative cannot judge ordinary artists, much less Olympic...