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...finish for the day, the miners usually stand around the bar at their own pubs. Though the refusal to work overtime has cost the miners $25 to $37.50 a week, they seem ready to stick it out. "We're a close-knit community," says Terry McGuire, a huge Scot who has been in the mines since World War II. "If somebody did need some assistance, he wouldn't ask the government. We'll take care...
NICOL WILLIAMSON'S LATE SHOW. An afterhours gig with the matchless Scot singing the blues and lighting up the night with Eliot, Kipling and Beckett...
...decided not to start impeachment proceedings against Vice President Schuyler Colfax for acts he bid allegedly committed before being elected, arguing that he could be impeached only for misdeeds committed while in office. In that event, Agnew would be neither indictable nor impeachable and, however guilty, could theoretically go scot-free. The theory strains credulity. By then the affair would have gone on so long, and Agnew would have appeared to the public to have eluded the law so flagrantly, that he most likely would be hounded out of office...
Reflecting on your involvement in all this, do you really think you ought to go scot-free...
...seas, the captain of a ship is responsible for an attack on another vessel, whether he has ordered the attack or not. Nor is it likely that his subordinates will risk such action without orders from the bridge. Even less likely is it that the guilty subordinates will go scot free and even receive the captain's protection, having so jeopardized the ship's safety. But no captain enjoys the Bourbon inviolability of Mr. Nixon, once he reaches port...