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...irredeemable. So long as the testimony of senior aides was in conflict, there was some chance that boredom and the impossibility of deciding conclusively among the different versions would cause the crisis to run out of steam. The revelation of the White House taping system ended any such possibility. Thenceforth Watergate was transformed into a bitter contest between the President on one side and the Congress and the special prosecutor (appointed in May) on the other for control of the tapes. Whatever the fine points of the legal debate, its very nature-with the implication that there was guilty knowledge...
...Master Sergeant Samuel Kanyon Doe, 28, was settling in as head of state. Each day began with a flurry of announcements. He decreed, for example, that all members of the national football team would go on the government payroll, and that the date of the coup, April 12, would thenceforth be known as National Redemption Day. At week's end he imposed martial law. Several times a day he roared out of the executive mansion in his Mercedes limousine to visit schools, markets and other gathering places. Wherever he went, thousands of chanting women-who, like Doe, belong...
...phenomenon has been observed: children trap their parents in front of the terrible tube and force them to watch the Muppets. The parents become habituated, and thenceforth on Muppet night somewhat sheepishly remind the children to close their calculus textbooks and turn on the set. In the last stage of addiction, the parents are sheepless and do not require the presence of child stooges...
Darcy Pulliam pleasantly surprised this reviewer in her role as Lady Windermere. Though her first act work was somewhat stiffer and more wooden than hoped for from this Loeb veteran, she redeemed her rather shaky start thenceforth...
After Christmas vacation in 1918, the paper was once again on a daily schedule, and the CRIMSON soon began to regain its former health. In 1919, the paper bought the 20-year-old Harvard Illustrated, a pictorial journal, and thenceforth published a bi-weekly photographic supplement. The next year, the progressive board also purchased a new press, which made the addition of a fifth column of news possible...