Word: sam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...within the White House and perilously close to the Oval Office. As more than one sympathetic Republican Congressman pointed out, the burden of proof has now been shifted to the President to demonstrate his innocence in the court of public opinion. On July 23 Richard Nixon had assured Senator Sam Ervin in a letter: "The tapes, which have been under my sole personal control, will remain so." While under that control, the Watergate evidence on one of them was forever erased...
Sharp's loss was the only one for Harvard in the first round. Joseph, Steve Hobbs and Larry Tu swept the sabre, allowing the Bantams a grand total of only five touches. Howie Weiss and Nick Tepe took two more in foil, while White, Sam Anderson and David Moscowitz won in epee...
...pace of stories in the energy field used to be almost leisurely," recalls Correspondent Sam Iker, whose reporting on Federal Energy Office Chief William Simon forms the nucleus of this week's cover story. As TIME'S resident expert in Washington on environment and energy stories since 1971, Iker has covered the gradual escalation of fuel-oil crunches, gasoline pinches, allocation battles and embargoes, and watched the subject of energy explode from a neglected issue into a vast and complex national crisis. "The intricacies of the oil business alone are mind-boggling," he points out, "not to mention...
While Uncle Sam is doling out our tax money to a bankrupt part of the transportation industry he shows a complete lack of concern for the estimated 25,000 employees of the growing (and unsubsidized) trunk airlines who have lost their jobs owing to an arbitrary 25% cut in the lines' fuel allocations...
...Woody Allen is out finest screen comedian. He only goes seriously wrong when there's not enough of him, like his not directing Play It Again, Sam, or his absence from some of the skits in Everything... But in Sleeper he's everywhere, directing, staring (Diane Keaton is there, too, but she can't fit into what is designed to be a one-man show) and co-authoring (with Marshal Brickman), generally leaving his stamp all over this terrifically funny film. Woody Alley may be staging everything a little too perfectly here, but he isn't going to lose...