Word: slates
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...water polo squad, which does not receive Athletic Department funding because of its "club" status in the University, will be at a disadvantage when it opposes a slate full of varsity opponents. However, Harvard placed fifth last season in Eastern water polo ranks, and second in the previous year...
Esposito had good reason to invoke the smoke-filled rooms-and the grand old names-of the past. The slate of party regulars he had so painstakingly helped put together had just been spectacularly smashed by Democratic insurgents, who managed to find fresh and personal ways of appealing to the electorate. The key results...
...admitted that he is capable of evil, that he has hurt countless persons. Forgiveness is a tough existential transition." Divine forgiveness is the model for human pardon, notes Church Historian Martin Marty, a Lutheran, and involves "an annihilation of what the sinner was. God completely wipes the slate clean. But that only happens if there is repentance, an about-face, a 180° turn. There is no evidence that the former President is doing anything of the kind." Nixon's attitude, complains Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg, president of the American Jewish Congress, merely seems to be: "Get this behind me so that...
Cabot, on the other hand, will not be able to devote full time to the portfolio until he and the treasurer's office complete their efforts to establish a new slate for Harvard financial management...
Youthful Veterans. Describing the committee to reporters last week, McCarthy avoided using the word party. There will be no conventions, primaries or full slate of candidates. The committee's key staffers are youthful veterans of McCarthy's 1968 presidential bid; they share his mistrust of the party system and hope to lure independent voters to their cause. Party or not, the organization will give the quixotic Mc Carthy a political platform-if it can raise enough money. So far the committee has a mere $30,000, half from Detroit Lions President (and 1968 McCarthy backer) William Clay Ford...