Word: scots
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Scot Sloan, "the fighting young priest who can talk to the young ... Didn't you read about me in Look? Birmingham, Selma, Chicago '68?" He lives with his dog, Unconditional Amnesty, and his cat, Kent State...
Died. Robert Cruickshank, 80, plucky Scottish-born Hall of Fame golfer and gallery favorite; in Delray Beach, Fla. Winner of 20 PGA tournaments from 1921-50, the "Wee Scot" played with an ebullience that once moved him to doff his cap, throw his club in the air and shout, "Thank you, God!" after a crucial shot bounced out of a brook and onto the green. The club, naturally, landed on his head...
...what about Nixon? "Only the worst Nixon-hater would want to see him in jail. People say he went scot free. He didn't go scot free. I would hope to have an opportunity to talk to him about this some day. I can't say he would see me, but I'd tell him what, as a young man, I've experienced. For one thing, how I've become immune to attacks. Magruder, Segretti, Krogh and others, we've done wrong. We've admitted it. We're no longer burdened...
...bull session. "I really want to bind up the wounds," he said. "If I'm going to do that, then I've got to reach those kids who dodged the draft or deserted. I'm not for unlimited amnesty. Deserters can't go home scot free when the kid next door might have been killed in Viet Nam. Can't we fashion some way to let them earn their way back?" The effects of this pronouncement, formalized in Ford's speech to the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Chicago, stunned the vets...
...Scot Free. At the very least, they knew their Watergate history. The youths asked for and got immunity from prosecution because the authorities wanted to uncover what they thought to be a wide answer-stealing conspiracy before examination day. The quick grant of immunity was apparently made in the belief that the four conspirators would implicate others. But the youths, as it turned out, had pulled off the caper by themselves. They had jimmied the principal's desk, stolen the key to the strongbox, and photostated the answer sheets. The copies were then sold at prices as high...