Word: schemed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Domhoff's 1968 speech calls for the welding of these groups into a new revolutionary party with a grass roots base large enough to win a Presidential election. In an August '72 postscript, he abandons the third-party scheme, and concludes that revolutionaries must run in Democratic Party primaries "on the most radical blueprints that can be developed." And as good Democrats, loyalty to the Party is "essential...
...Hugh Scott (R-Pa.). Scott, the Senate minority leader, has backed every Nixon scheme that has come down the turnpike. He has been especially vocal about Vietnam policy. He may just be a loyal careerist, but that defense did not help Adolf Eichmann...
...addition to dealing with auto emissions, the clean air legislation of 1970 specified that each state devise its own scheme for controlling stationary pollution sources. By last spring, however, environmentalists had spotted a gaping loophole. Polluters could simply move their plants to states with cleaner air-provided their emissions stayed under federal limits for air pollutants...
...respond to the wave of bombings, shoot-outs and campus riots in the late 1960s. Some memos leaked to the New York Times last week showed that Nixon's plans were more ambitious than most people knew. They envisioned a permanent, extensive surveillance of suspect radical groups. A scheme was proposed to increase electronic bugging, to open mail, to allow for "surreptitious entry" or, plainly, burglary. The memos admitted that some of these activities were "illegal" and involved "serious risks...
...that Clive Davis, 41, the onetime wonder-boy president of Columbia Records, was involved in siphoning off money from the corporation by presenting phony bills. Though CBS has officially charged Davis with taking only about $87,000 for his own use, the Government is probing an elaborate scheme in which Columbia-and perhaps other record companies-may have been bilked of many millions of dollars. Columbia Records alone reportedly lost $2,000,000. Investigators were trying to find out whether the Mafia had got a firm foothold in the record industry, or whether the Columbia Records scandal was an isolated...