Word: sam
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...York's Eyewitness News, made the show because, says Executive Producer Dennis Doty, he should "wear well in the morning." Indeed he has so far been unflaggingly unabrasive. To provide political commentary, the show has enlisted such part-time "AMericans" as Lindsay, former Senator Sam Ervin, former Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Civil Rights Activist Jesse Jackson...
...Sam J. Ervin Jr., 78, Democratic Senator from North Carolina for 20 years: "My greatest regret has been my inability to enact some very basic laws that would guarantee individual freedom. I believe that you ought to leave as much governing as possible to the people at the local level...
Nonetheless, in recent years the criminal justice system had fallen far behind. Recently Congress, led by Senator Sam Ervin, passed a little-noticed bill aimed at shortening the delay in federal courts. The new law, signed by President Ford last week, provides that if a defendant is not tried within 100 days of his arrest, the charges against him must be dismissed...
...bald look, rather passé in politics since the days of Dwight Eisenhower and Speaker Sam Rayburn, has again become topical now that Jerry Ford is Head of State. During his recent senatorial campaign, for example, Utah Republican Senator Jake Garn plastered his state with billboards reading: "Garn-candid. Garn-decisive. Garn-aware. Garn-bald." He won by 25,000 votes. When some of his constituents suggested that he wear a toupee, California's Democratic Senator Alan Cranston replied: "If I went to all that trouble to cover up my head, editorial writers might theorize that I was covering...
...previous U.S. gold rushes gone anything like the one that began last week, California would have been short of settlers and Poet Robert Service would never have written about the cremation of Sam McGee in the Klondike. Legally free as of Dec. 31 to buy bullion for the first time in 41 years, Americans greeted the opportunity with a veteran prospector's wariness of fool's gold. The caution seemed justified. By week's end, after three full days of trading in the yellow metal, gold's price stood at $174 per ounce on the bellwether...