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...loyalty should count at all in considering the sentences, it should be loyalty to basic principles of justice and not to any particular egomaniac. That Sirica's sentences were some of the stiffest in the entire Watergate nexus of crime and corruption attests to the gravity of this particular trial and its consequences. Enough of Watergate has already been obfuscated and forgotten for four of its most active participants to be mildly scolded and sent off to resume high social, if not powerful, positions in American society again...
...stiffest competition for the Harvard troops will come from the Tigers, who have clawed their way to a perfect 8-0 record this season. The Princeton thinclads are looking to become the first undefeated track squad in the school's history...
...Cadets should provide the thinclads with their stiffest opposition of the season in today's meet. They, too, post a 2-0 slate, having finished first in a tri-meet last weekend with Connecticut and Colgate...
...Supreme Court has agreed to decide before June whether the mandatory provision makes constitutional the death sentence of one convict, Jesse Fowler. His case appropriately originated in North Carolina, which has one of the stiffest new statutes. It now has by far the nation's largest death-row population. TIME Correspondent Jack White recently visited Fowler and the other condemned inmates...
...famous aphorism, were asked last week to sweat in the service of their nation. Faced with declining foreign reserves and the prospect of mass unemployment once the country can no longer pay for raw materials to feed its factories, Premier Yitzhak Rabin's government imposed the stiffest austerity program that Israel, or almost any other nation, has ever seen...