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Nonetheless, 730,000 workers were laid off last week and queued up at unemployment offices to register for government benefits. The number is expected to swell to 3,000,000 if the crisis lasts until the end of January. According to Anthony Wedgwood Benn, Labor's shadow cabinet Minister of Trade and Industry, the social security costs in such an event alone would run to $92 million a week...
Occasionally, some judges act in a way that causes the hearts of other judges to swell with pride. God bless you. -Judge John A. Shidler, Superior Court, Torrance, Calif...
...last 48 hours, nonstop. He went through four directors and scriptwriters like F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ben Hecht. When the Screen Extras Guild produced only 1,500 bodies to represent the Confederate wounded at the Atlanta Railroad Station, Selznick violated union rules by ordering up 1,000 dummies to swell the crowd...
...ground swell of public opinion over the weekend had its deepest support among citizens who dislike Nixon and his policies. The outpour of new impeachment supporters, however, came from those who felt strongly that the President was placing himself above the law by threatening to defy Judge Sirica. Nixon recognized this reality when he instructed his lawyer, Charles Alan Wright, to state simply, "This president does not defy the law." This catch-phrase will be the cornerstone of Nixon's Watergate strategy in the coming weeks...
...taken his case to the country, hoping to arouse popular support with a televised speech that claimed he was being framed by the Justice Department and, by implication, Nixon himself. The Republican women in his Los Angeles audience cheered him to the rafters, but no nationwide ground swell of public opinion developed to lift him high. "Everything was downhill after L.A.," says Marsh Thomson, Agnew's press aide. "The point was driven home to him that he was 'dead.' The limb had been sawed...