Word: sams
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sam Ervin pounded his gavel for the last time at 4:45 in the afternoon and then, after a round of handshakes and picture taking, he took the gavel with him as he departed for a surprise party to celebrate Herman E. Talmadge's 60th birthday. After 37 days, 33 witnesses, 7,573 pages of transcript and nearly 2,000,000 words of testimony, just about everybody felt it was time for a rest...
...Lowell Weicker protested that it was "grossly unfair" that Haldeman could hear the tapes when other prospective criminal defendants could not. Complained Democratic Senator Herman Talmadge: "Why would a private citizen be more entitled to listen to those tapes than a Senate committee of the United States Congress?" Chairman Sam Ervin, noting that Nixon had conceded that the tapes were subject to different interpretations, said he would be "scrupulous in considering whether I should accept Mr. Haldeman's interpretation...
...monitoring" of the activities of an organization called "Democrats for McGovern," located in West Berlin. The information, gathered by aides of Watergate Committee Member Senator Lowell P. Weicker during an independent investigation of the Nixon Administration's national-security activities, has been turned over to Watergate Committee Chairman Sam Ervin's Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights and to the Senate Armed Services Committee. It is probable that Ervin's subcommittee will look into violations of American citizens' rights abroad...
...degree of insult apparently depends on the speaker, year and tone of voice. Inouye himself tells of the time he decided to introduce himself to House Speaker Sam Rayburn. Said Rayburn: "I know who you are. How many one-armed Japs do you think we have in the House...
Casablanca. Bogart. Why the Brattle brings this crowdpleaser back season in and season out I don't want to know. Why people pack the house I don't like, except on especially good days when nothing can phase me. Only then will the audience stock responses--"Play it, Sam", howls--rub off as some sort of togetherness high that is very very funny. On normal days the movie takes the most self-indulgent of campy spirits to be endured. Brattle...