Word: sec
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wouldn't have understood what they were talking about," says former Speech Writer Emmet Hughes. "Anybody who would have engaged in even a 60-sec-ond exchange like those would have been thrown...
...well. During the week-long oddball Olympics, contestants in 75 events set eleven new world records. John Parker, 24, made himself a 1975 edition Guinness notable by downing 300 goldfish, 75 more than the previous oldie goldie. Rick Sumner, 14, polished off 20 doughnuts in 9 min. 59 sec., beating the old record of 20 in 15 min. John McKinney, 17, and Rick Sackett, 25, each crammed 52 cigars into their mouths and kept them alight for 30 sec. (v. the previous record of 28 lit for 30 sec.). Another titlist, Scott Case, managed to smoke 110 cigarettes simultaneously...
Allan Littman, 17, consumed a pound of grapes, with seeds, in 52 sec. to crush the old mark of 65 sec. Allan Greenberg, 22, twirled a record album on his forefinger for 5 hr. Bruce Stewart and Robert Argust slapped each other's faces for 31 hr. to top the old record by one hour. Frank Dolce blew 116 smoke rings on one drag to break the old high...
...four hours. He claimed that his client had been unfairly afflicted by the prosecution with the blight of "Vescoitis"-the implication that Stans had been controlled in thought and deed by Financier Robert Vesco. According to the indictment, Stans and Mitchell had tried to help Vesco with the SEC after the moneyman had made a secret $200,000 cash contribution to Nixon's 1972 presidential campaign...
...nine charges-including six of perjury-brought against him. He took special pains to rebut the testimony given against him by John Dean, who was his protege at the Department.of Justice. In particular, Mitchell denied Dean's claim that Mitchell asked him to intervene with the SEC to delay subpoenas that had been issued against some of Vesco's employees...