Word: sams
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Watergate investigation, Sam Ervin is not trying to find out what White House aides may have told the President about some proper aspect of their official duties. He wants to know whether they took part in political ac tivities that may have been illegal or im proper or whether they know who did so. Yet Nixon has tried to ban any of his aides, even those no longer on his staff, from testifying before any con gressional committee. Last week the Washington Post revealed that Nixon's chief counsel, John W. Dean III, had cited this privilege to avoid...
...Sam went at 16 to the University of North Carolina, where he developed a lifelong fondness for poetry (favoring Tennyson, Kipling and Shakespeare) and a knack for memorizing it. Always a hearty laugher, especially at his own jokes, he was elected president of his senior class and chosen its "best...
...legislature to devote full time to practicing law with his father. "It was from him that I got the feeling that the freedom of the individual-no matter how lowly he is-is fundamental," Ervin recalls. The elder Ervin was especially incensed at any hint of police brutality. Young Sam was reluctantly drawn away from law practice by a series of appointments that Governors or other officials persuaded him to accept: in 1935 as a county court judge, in 1937 as a superior court judge, in 1948 as a state supreme court justice...
...found that an apt story is worth an hour of argument," says North Carolina's Sam Ervin. "A story that fits a point that you're trying to make sort of tends to arouse your audience, to get their attention if you're about to lose it. And a good story is a good way to relieve tension." Thus Ervin sums up his liberal use of hill-country anecdotes and other witticisms to make points in congressional debate or simply to amuse his friends. A sampling of the Senator's folksy stories on a variety...
...exception among American mayors, who often seem overwhelmed by urban woes, peripatetic Sam Yorty of Los Angeles is an indomitable booster who proclaims that "this city is the envy of the world." If Los Angeles has some troubles and tensions, the reason, as Mayor Sam never tires of explaining, is simply that his own powers are severely limited in comparison with those of the numerous commissions and boards in the area. Anti-Yorty jokes, aimed at the mayor's do-nothingness, are as common in Los Angeles as smog, traffic jams and starlets. Cracks Jesse Unruh, former Democratic Speaker...