Word: sam
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...sign a bill this week that will at last make the Government liable to pay damage claims if its law enforcement agents, while carrying out their duties, commit such offenses as assault, battery, false imprisonment, false arrest, or raiding without a proper warrant. The provision is the stepchild of Sam Ervin, the Senate's doughty champion of constitutional rights. Ervin was aided by Paul Verkuil, a professor at the University of North Carolina, in gathering the evidence that convinced Congress to adopt the provision. Says Verkuil: "All of a sudden the Federal Government is going to have...
...season. They figure to wind up about six or seven games off the winning pace. Their main strength appears to be a fairly sound mound staff, including perennial strong man Mel Stottlemyre, Fritz Peterson (who dealt his wife and his popularity to Mike Kekich last spring), Pat Dobson, Sam McDowell and Steve Kline...
DEAN gave his version in testimony to Senator Sam Ervin's Watergate committee last June 25. Denied access to his White House files and working from memory, Dean at the time mistakenly thought that much of the crucial conversation had taken place on March 13 rather than on March 21. Dean testified: "I told the President about the fact that there were money demands being made by the seven convicted defendants . . . I told the President that there was no money to pay these individuals to meet their demands. He asked me how much it would cost. I told...
...Tent. The remaining loose ends of the Gatsby package wrapped up smoothly: Karen Black and Scott Wilson as the ill-fated Myrtle and George Wilson; Bruce Dern as Daisy's husband Tom Buchanan; Sam Waterston as the narrator, Nick Carraway; Lois Chiles as Jordan Baker; and finally Howard da Silva, who played Wilson in the 1949 version, as Gatsby's mysterious business connection Wolfsheim, "the man who fixed the 1919 World Series...
There was more curiosity about Farrow than anyone, but after the show, least agreement on her performance. It is an uneven portrayal: "She comes, she goes, but in the end she just fades away." Most of the praise for actors is for Bruce Bern and Sam Waterston, though just about everyone agrees that Howard da Silva's brief appearance as the gambler is the best bit in the picture. There is also agreement that the picture does not grip the emotions. Said one departing guest, "What's that line in the ads, 'Gone is the romance that...