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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...committee's factual presentation of evidence cited 19 occasions on which Nixon had made false or misleading statements "as part of a deliberate, contrived, continued deception of the American people" on the Watergate scandal. In addition to Nixon's own falsehoods, the committee reported, the cover-up was aided "by false statements and testimony by the President's close subordinates, which the President condoned, encouraged, and in some instances, directed, coached and personally helped to fabricate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUSTICE: Not Hounded Out of Office | 9/2/1974 | See Source »

...Johnson did not play and the Giants lost 12-10. If the bookies knew Johnson would not play, they stood to make a killing by accepting mostly Giants bets. What is good business for bookies is bad business for football. Coming on top of the players' strike, the scandal is just about the last thing the N.F.L. needs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Bookmaker's Dream | 9/2/1974 | See Source »

...more cautious and moderate" than Predecessor Smith, but he promised last week to continue the push for group legal services and a refurbishing of the code of legal ethics. A general practitioner in Oklahoma City, Fellers was president of the state bar in 1964 when a bribery scandal involving nearly half the Oklahoma supreme court led to a Fellers-appointed investigating committee. Final tally: one justice impeached and removed, two convicted of income tax evasion, and one dead before action could be taken. "Out of that emerged a number of judicial reforms," recalls Fellers. Now, he says, "Watergate has supplied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: A.B.A.: No Show | 8/26/1974 | See Source »

...even those critics who were openly skeptical about the phenomena reported by the Institute for Parapsychology in Durham, N.C., seldom questioned the sincerity or integrity of Dr. Joseph B. Rhine, the institute's founder, or his staff. Last week a shaken Rhine was preparing to acknowledge publicly a scandal that has already rocked the entire psychic establishment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Psychic Scandal | 8/26/1974 | See Source »

...W.F.L. has its own woes from a scandal that surfaced recently when officials of the Philadelphia Bell and the Jacksonville Sharks confessed to hyperinflating attendance figures with a mass giveaway of tickets. Some 44,000 freebies were handed out to Shark fans for the team's first two home games. A whopping 100,000 went to Bell spectators. "The second game was on TV," explained Bell Executive Vice President Barry Leib shortly before his 48-hour suspension by League Founder-Commissioner Gary Davidson. "How would it have looked if no one was there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Gaining a Cleathold | 8/26/1974 | See Source »

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