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...more than one sympathetic Republican Congressman pointed out, the burden of proof has now been shifted to the President to demonstrate his innocence in the court of public opinion. On July 23 Richard Nixon had assured Senator Sam Ervin in a letter: "The tapes, which have been under my sole personal control, will remain so." While under that control, the Watergate evidence on one of them was forever erased...
...vigorously on the side of the civil libertarians. Intrinsic to most censorship arguments is the supposition that the putative censors are morally superior to pornography's patrons. It is a form of elitism, as dogmatic and offensive as a religious sect which insists that it alone possesses the sole pathway to the Godhead...
...quite proud. Actually, it is a somewhat erratic blend of the good, bad and incongruous. Columnists Nicholas von Hoffman and Art Buchwald are mixed with meandering reviews of the arts-plus Ann Landers. The Post has some trouble serving its fragmented local area; it is not only the sole morning daily in the District of Columbia, its suburban circulation makes it the largest morning paper in Maryland and the largest paper-period-in Virginia. Publisher Katharine Graham has not let the rigors of Watergate coverage stiffen her sense of humor: "Wherever I go, someone inevitably declares that this has been...
...relatively level, short-heeled pumps, walking shoes and flats. Heels reared up once again with the platform look, which is still riding high. But now the heel has actually dropped below the toes in a new kind of footwear: the odd-looking clodhoppers known to a growing band of sole sisters (and brothers) as Earth Shoes...
...such celebrities as Mark Spitz, James Coburn and Tony Curtis-are competing for limited supplies of clumpy footwear that defies most principles of shoemaking. Instead of sloping downward to the toe the heel of the Earth Shoe is approximately one-half inch lower than the forward part. The rubber sole, in turn, gradually thickens in the direction of the toe elevating the front of the foot and leaving the wearer balancing on his heels. "It's like walking barefoot on a soft, sandy beach," says Raymond Jacobs,' U.S. distributor of the footwear...