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Drink Nurser. When it was his turn to testify, Ed Nixon came on as the eternal, jug-eared kid brother of the family. His face is longer and thinner, but he bears a remarkable resemblance to the President. When he talks-confidently and fluently-his hands even move in the same eager way. A geologist, he now works as a consultant on environmental affairs...
...like the moon and it isn't," said Donald E. Gault, one of the scientists monitoring the Mariner data at NASA'S Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, Calif. The pictures showed that Mercury's craters are much flatter and thinner-rimmed than the moon's and resemble giant pie pans-an indication that they may have been worn down by some yet-to-be-identified erosional process. Like most of their lunar counterparts, Mercury's craters were apparently created by impacts of asteroid-size chunks of material rather than by volcanic eruptions. Indeed, one crater...
...week to give them all time to get to Los Angeles. But they did not need the delay. Krogh surrendered almost immediately, pleaded not guilty and professed "some real regrets over what has taken place in terms of injuring innocent persons." Then came Young, then Ehrlichman, more tanned and thinner than he used to be. He pleaded not guilty and was taken off for fingerprinting and mug shots. Liddy, who is serving a sentence of up to 20 years for the Watergate breakin, will have to stand trial once again in Los Angeles. If convicted, each man could receive...
Howard Hunt Jr. Only five months into his provisional 35-year sentence, he has become noticeably thinner-25 Ibs. by his own measurement-his hair grayer, his eyes listless, and the muscles of his left calf have slightly atrophied as the result of a mild heart attack. He emerges from prison only to tell authorities what he knows about the Watergate breakin; so far, he has testified 19 times before grand juries and congressional committees. For security reasons, on those occasions his legs are put in irons and his wrists are manacled to a chain round his waist. Much...
...historian who deplores the "thinner life of things," Boorstin seems spare in his appraisal of the life of the spirit during the past century. His one bow to it is a somewhat ingenuous section on the American missionary impulse and what he calls "Samaritan diplomacy," though he does allude to the cultural imperialism that has often accompanied missionaries. He limits his discussion of America's inexorable technology to vignettes about the atomic bomb and the space race. His assay of the century's "democratic experience" does not include any mention of the fate of the American Indian...