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...that his ties to Interstate would influence the decisions about the oil and shipping industries that he would make at FEA and implies that his troubles are the result of Washington backbiting. "There are people in town who, for reasons best known to them, would like to cut my throat," he says. His problems illustrate the difficulties involved when the Government appoints to a regulatory agency a man from the industry that is regulated. Given the post-Watergate climate, some Senate aides think that the Senate will refuse to confirm Gibson's nomination-if it ever gets there...
...take Nixon's testimony by closed-circuit television or on video tape were under consideration, assuming that he recovers sufficiently for any questioning at all. Defendant Robert Mardian was seeking a separate, later trial because his chief lawyer, David Bress, was undergoing tests for an undetermined throat ailment...
...were a thousand prodigies Spreading everywhere In Lydda, in Ramallah, in the Galilee... Here we shall stay, A wall upon your breast, And in your throat we shall stay, A piece of glass, a cactus thorn, And in your eyes, A blazing fire. -Tawfiq Zayad
HARVARD-PRINCETON--This will not be easy. Staring down the throat of a momentous clash with Yale for the Ivy crown, Harvard must first do business with a tough team from Princeton. The Tigers always play the Crimson tough, and today will be no exception. There will be no room for mistakes or over-confidence. Harvard 20, Princeton...
Racing in the Head of the Charles is like playing croquet. It has all the airs of a "gentleman's sport," but the winners are always the most cut-throat competitors...