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Samuel Dash, chief majority counsel for the Senate select committee investigating Watergate, also learned his law under Cox in the forties...
...BUREAUCRAT looks like another, and its the men who hold the political pursestrings that receive the most attention. The first year Bok set up his Administration; the second year he began to select his own people to run it. Exit R. Victor Jones, the dean of the GSAS, in September 1972; exit George Bennett '33, treasurer, the same month (Bennett remained until a successor was chosen); exit John T. Dunlop, dean of the Faculty, in January...
Brooks, however, has chosen to retain as much of the Ashburn tradition as possible. As his successor, the school picked 35-year-old Peter Aitkens, a former physics teacher at England's Eton College, precisely because he was committed to Ashburn's concept of a small, select boarding school...
...life-particularly prison sentences. In April a jury imposed 5,005 years on each of the two convicted kidnapers of Socialite Amanda Mayhew Dealey. Of course, defense attorneys pull out every stop and follow every stereotype to get a sympathetic jury. But one hint of how prosecutors manage to select vengeance-minded jurors came out recently in the liberal Texas Observer. It obtained a copy of a syllabus put out by the Dallas County district attorney's office. The chapter on "Jury Selection in a Criminal Case," written by Jon Sparling, the assistant D.A. who got the first...
...Forum. Although he had been quizzed repeatedly by Justice Department investigators and a federal grand jury in Washington, McCord, who is fighting to stave off a long prison sentence, saved his charges against the President for a new and formidable forum: the hearings of the Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities. McCord did not claim that he had had any direct communication with the President before or after the bugging and burglarizing of Democratic National Headquarters at the Water gate last June 17. Always, McCord's allegations of presidential concern involved word from an intermediary...