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...delaying grand jury deliberations many months." St. Clair did not explain how additional evidence would slow, rather than speed indictments. The statement did, however, fit the current presidential defense strategy, which is to push publicly for a fast end to the many Watergate investigations, while acting privately to stall and delay any quick resolution of Nixon's own fate. The President's hope apparently is that a Watergate-weary public will lose all interest in the sorry affair as the matter drags on-and will neither notice, nor care, who is prolonging the proceedings...
...were so suspicious of outsiders. The woman who owned the store, wearing shabby modern clothes rather than the traditional bulky skirt and heavy woolen top of the Quechua Indians, handed me the peanuts wrapped in a piece of newspaper. She then moved quickly to the other side of her stall, barely acknowledging my gracias...
Harvard's second-half comeback and the play of Steve Selinger and Tony Jenkins provided the only excitement in an otherwise dull game. A poorly played opening 20 minutes and a Princeton stall that closed the game helped to extinguish interest in the IAB crowd...
...Tigers, behind senior substitute Joe Vavricka and Mickey Steurer, pulled away, just as Penn had the night before when the Crimson threatened. At the end, the Tigers went into a stall and Sanders's squad, reduced to fouling deliberately, saw the final point-spread balloon...
...Harvard, Engle left too late. In the last few minutes a dribble stall and excellent foul shooting by the Quakers preserved their...