Word: ser
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...leaders of the U.W.C. expected that the strike would be successful enough to bring down the Faulkner coalition. Day by day, however, more and more workers stayed away from their jobs, and both industry and domestic services slowed to a near halt. Grocery stores ran out of food, ser vice stations emptied their gasoline tanks, and electric power was cut to one-fourth of normal output. By the end of two weeks, the strikers were so fully in control that they were regulating what little rural commerce remained and had stopped the refueling of airplanes at airports. As an added...
...Nixon remark to Dean from the transcripts: "Just looking at the immediate problem, don't you think you have to handle [E. Howard] Hunt's financial situation damn soon?" Particularly helpful were readings from the transcripts by CBS newsmen taking the parts of the President (Barry Ser-afin), Dean (Bob Schieffer) and Haldeman (Nelson Benton). The trio stood behind 19th century lecterns like Chautauqua troupers and read tonelessly to avoid possibly inaccurate inflections. Nevertheless, they lent some human clarity to the welter of words...
Although President Nixon has agreed to pay $432,787 in back taxes as assessed by the Internal Revenue Ser vice, his tax problems are not over. At the specific request of the IRS, Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski will apparently ask a federal grand jury to decide whether Nixon's tax advisers, Attorney Frank DeMarco and Accountant Arthur Blech, should be charged with fraud. DeMarco, at least, is not likely to accept the full blame under any such accusation. At the same time, IRS Commissioner Donald Alexander, by will ingly declaring that Nixon had not been accused of fraud himself...
...response, an Administration spokes man said that the White House has only one Uher 5000 recorder and that only Miss Woods used it. But the Secret Ser vice has at least three of the machines that have been borrowed from time to time by members of Nixon's staff...
...clock), Republican Rep resentative from Minnesota. In between are Schneebeli (Shnay-ble), Republican Representative from Pennsylvania, and Kluczynski (Kloo-chin-skee), Dem ocratic Representative from Illinois. Especially rich-sounding are the Gs in the House. Among them: Gaydos (Gay-duss), Pennsylvania Democrat; Giaimo (Gy-moe), Connecticut Democrat; Gubser (Goob-ser), Republican from California; and Gude (Goo-dee), Republican from Maryland. The only of fice that has remained impervious to the phonetic assault is, of course, the presidency itself. But Spiro Agnew is within shouting distance...