Word: sam
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Climax to Come. Senator Sam Ervin (see story page 13) will resume his Watergate committee hearings next month, putting on display witnesses who will testify about the Administration's role in the milk deal and the curious $100,000 campaign contribution from Howard Hughes that Bebe Rebozo kept in that safe-deposit...
White House Counsel J. Fred Buzhardt accepted the committee's subpoena but gave no indication whether it would be honored. An aide said that Nixon considered the subpoena "incredible." If the White House does not obey it, however, Committee Chairman Sam Ervin has vowed to ask the courts to force the Administration to comply...
...that Sam Ervin was tired, though he has been working harder than ever. Nor did he have any doubts of being able to whip the younger men who have an eye on the Senate seat that he has occupied for nearly 20 years. It was simply that at 77 he felt that he was too old to carry on. Last week he phrased his announcement that he will not stand for re-election next November in those by now familiar rolling cadences-a little of Virgil, a little of Shakespeare, a little of Sam. "Since time takes a constantly accelerating...
...announces gravely: The crazed Arabs, endowed only with anatomical fortuity, have put their thumb astride our jugular. These are not familiar, white-skinned Europeans, polite Belgians or Dutchmen, who will calmly accede to our reasonable requests. These are berobed bedouin upstarts, mustachioed bandit sheiks, out to black-mail Uncle Sam till his back--or at least his foreign policy--is up against the wall...
...Sam McCandless, program service officer for the College Board's Admissions Testing Program, said that, "there seems no longer to be a general consensus about what it means to be 'well educated...