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After four garrulous days, the talking stopped. The room was silent, and so, in a sense, was a watching nation. One by one, the strained and solemn faces of the 38 members of the House Judiciary Committee were focused on by the television cameras. One by one, their names were called. One by one, they cast the most momentous vote of their political lives, or of any representative of the American people in a century...
...Ervin could not resist going out on a quote. As the Senate Watergate committee gathered in the Old Senate Caucus Room for its final news conference, Ervin summed up the meaning of it all with the help of liberal sayings from the Scriptures and the classics, including a ripely solemn phrase from Rudyard Kipling: "For the sin they do by two and two they must...
Died. Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov, 77, squat, solemn Soviet marshal dubbed "the Eisenhower of Russia"; of a heart attack; in Moscow. Zhukov fought in World War I as a Czarist dragoon, in 1918 suited up as a Red Army cavalryman. After weathering both the shift to mechanized warfare and Stalin's purges of military professionals, Zhukov was Chief of Staff when Hitler first trained his guns on the U.S.S.R. In 1941 the marshal smashed the myth of Nazi invincibility by engineering the defense of Moscow with a flood of Siberian troops, and later won the great battles of Stalingrad, Leningrad...
...news conference the next morning when he announced his intention to continue in pursuit of the tapes, Cox spoke quietly but firmly. "For me to comply to those instructions would violate my solemn pledge to the Senate and the country to invoke judicial process to challenge exaggerated claims of executive privilege. I shall not violate my promise," he said...
...with the Chinese. Although some Chinese students attend the institute, they have separate classes and their own dormitory and mess hall. There are also limits on how much the foreign students can socialize with each other. Early on, an institute official decreed that relations between the sexes must be "solemn and legitimate." Men and women sleep in segregated dormitories, two to a room. To make sure things stay that way, the women's residence is padlocked each night at 10 p.m. "It's like being in the army," says one Canadian. "You ask why they have a certain...