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Mark O'Donoghue '73, another third-year law student and member of the Guild, yesterday said this fall's controversy between Sacks and the students who wished to see the report is "a tempest in a teapot," that "only came to the boiling point because we kept the heat...
...reminds me of 1972 when she took an early lead in the conversation and managed to tell me to vote for McGovern before I could tell her. This time she thinks the economy is dying and the Arabs are getting rich while the politicians piddle around with their teapot tempests. Cutting up the chicken for Sunday lunch two weeks ago, she told me I better find out about those prices and that oil business because it's going to be the next humdinger...
...three-month national reserve of oil by storehousing supplies in salt domes, idle tankers and even abandoned mines-a sound precaution but hardly a basic solution. By an impressive margin of 391 to 20, the House decided to allow commercial oil drilling in the Elk Hills, Buena Vista and Teapot Dome reserves, which have been husbanded for emergency military use. But two of the fields are small and already partially depleted...
...lecherous young master. Orphan Sarah's beginnings were livelier - and even more unpleasant. As a girl she is saved from impending rape in Whitechapel, but the man who saved her turned out to be a perverted missionary. By contrast, the weekly blend of world crisis and teapot tragedy at Eaton Place - where all the books end - seems calm indeed...
Died. Burton K. Wheeler, 92, isolationist Montana Senator (1923-47); in Washington, D.C. First elected in 1922, Democrat Wheeler gained a national reputation with his aggressive investigation of the Teapot Dome oil scandal, later became an ardent New Dealer. He broke with F.D.R. over the President's plan to enlarge and pack the Supreme Court, earning a reputation as "the man who whipped Roosevelt." As World War II engulfed Europe, Wheeler became an America Firster, charging that aid to besieged Britain would drag the U.S. into a fight that would "plow under every fourth American boy." Defeated for renomination...