Word: ruth
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...pardoned for any possible crimes committed while President, Nixon faces more than 30 legal actions in which either he is a defendant in a civil suit, or his testimony is wanted or his lawyers are seeking to protect his tapes and documents. Nixon was grilled by Special Prosecutor Henry Ruth in the presence of grand jurors in June. The most serious suits against him and members of his Administration are the claims by Morton Halperin and Anthony Lake, both former members of the National Security Council, that their privacy was invaded when their telephones were tapped in 1969-71. Nixon...
Prose-Colored Glosses. In between such revisionist histories, Nice Guys Finish Last provides a series of fascinating and hilarious reminiscences, ranging from his locker-room wrangle with Babe Ruth to Bobby Thomson's shot heard round the world. But essentially the book is a series of prose-colored glosses aimed for fans rather than readers...
...Radcliffe Institute's summer offerings were much less flamboyant. Two of the sessions were taught by Ruth Whitman, a poet who has published several books and who teaches one of the seminars in the full year program. The first session, which drew 40 people this year, was an introduction to poetry, what Whitman calls "exploring its sources" Participants may not be experienced poets, but they all experiment during the week, reading their work aloud for others to comment on. The second session, which took place this week, was created at the demand of alumni who attended a session similar...
...rate, Jim Rice has been the Lou Gehrig of the Red Sox this season, an over-shadowed second fiddle to Lynn's Babe Ruth. Winner of the minor league Triple Crown last year with Pawtucket he was expected to be the real star, and in a Lynnless summer he would have been. As it stands, he's hitting almost ...300, and is third in the league in RBIs. Beginning the season as a designated hitter, he's recently moved to left field and has been fielding well...
...Ruth has been prepared to press the matter of Nixon's testifying ever since the former President's health improved to the point where he was seen publicly in recent days playing golf. A Nixon friend quotes the former President as once saying that he "would rather die" than return to Washington to testify before a grand jury or in a courtroom. For the moment that outcome has been avoided. But Nixon could be summoned as a witness should indictments be handed up in any of the four areas in which he was questioned. And he is still...