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Last year, this page was plagued by a particularly bad football picker. The poor fellow struggled around .500 all year. This year, an attempt will be made to select winners. This week's picks, including one game to be played tonight...
...probability, public passions would have cooled in that long period before Nixon came to trial, rather than have been heightened by the suspense. The Watergate specifics readily become garbled as time passes, and an open-minded jury could probably have been selected by then. No trial has ever been precluded in the U.S. because of prejudicial publicity and the consequent inability to select a jury. Nixon would surely have receded somewhat in public consciousness. The trial of a former President, while sensational for a time, would be far less traumatic than the impeachment of a sitting President...
...move to mollify Cambridge tenants, City Manager Sullivan announced early this month that nine representatives of local tenant groups would act as a screening committee to select Castriotta's replacement. The move appeared to further insure the possibility of reforming the CHA in the next fiscal year...
...Teamsters suit charged that Sullivan violated a state housing authority law that requires "a representative of organized labor" to be among the five CHA commissioners. The law also requires Sullivan to select nominees submitted by the AFL-CIO Labor Council, the suit said...
...most obvious fact about the select few is that most are over 50 (in fact, six on the list are dead). In the top groups, only 41-year-old Susan Sontag can be considered new blueblood, and she made her debut with an essay on camp more than a decade ago. Kadushin found that in general the people interviewed were "systematically ignorant" of up-and-coming young intellectuals. Brilliant youthful Catholic writers like Gary Wills (Nixon Agonistes, The Bare Ruined Choir) and important new journals like Theodore Solatoroff's American Review do not appear to be taken with sufficient...