Word: throwers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...within the confines of the shot-putter's 7-ft. circle that Oldfield really exercises his power. At an I.T.A. meet last month in El Paso, Oldfield whirled and hurled the 16-lb. shot farther than anyone else in history. Spinning around with a discus thrower's 1½ turn, which no other shotputter has mastered, Oldfield fired the steel ball 75 ft., an astonishing 3½ ft. past the existing world outdoor mark. Oldfield's effort will not be recognized as a record by amateur governing bodies because of his professional status, but he has more...
Quarterback Milt Holt's passing holds they key to the Crimson attack this season. Although a better runner than his predecessor, All-Ivy Jim Stoeckel, Holt isn't quite the calibre passer that Stoeckel was. However, Holt is a better than average thrower and Restic is confident that the senior passer will...
Nixon's first two IRS commissioners both felt so strongly about the White House pressure that they threatened to quit rather than carry out the orders of his aides. The first, Randolph W. Thrower, objected in 1970 to one White House scheme on the ground that it might create "a personal police force" within IRS. His successor, Johnnie M. Walters, protested late in 1972 that another White House proposal would have been "disastrous for IRS and for the Administration and would make the Watergate affair look like a Sunday-school picnic." Obviously out of favor with the President, both commissioners...
...Thrower's warning about a personal police force was in response to the President's attempt to appoint a secret investigator for the White House, John Caulfield...
Earlier, when Commissioner Thrower told then Treasury Secretary David Kennedy in January 1971 that he planned to resign, Thrower asked for a chance to protest to Nixon "about White House attitudes toward the IRS." Kennedy said he would arrange a meeting with the President, but according to Thrower, "Haldeman told him that the President did not like such conferences." Persisting, Thrower expressed his concern to Attorney General John Mitchell, warning that "any suggestion of the introduction of political influence into the IRS would be very damaging to him [Nixon] and his Administration, as well as to the revenue system...