Word: touche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...suits, including highly complex antitrust cases. But now he was being asked to rule on an unprecedented claim by the Executive Branch that a President is immune from subpoenas because the courts have no power to enforce any order against him; that only the impeachment process of Congress can touch him. Moreover, argued Nixon's legal consultant, University of Texas Law Professor Charles Alan Wright, Nixon's tapes were protected by the unwritten doctrine of Executive privilege. Only the President had the power to decide which of his documents were so privileged or which might also endanger national security...
Crouch, like a growing number of other observers, fears that the Prime Minister's militant attitude could touch off class strife in Britain's stratified society. Britons have generally sympathized with the miners' plight, but there is growing resentment against them over the coal shortage that they have caused by their month-long work slowdown...
...LITTLE TOUCH OF SCHMILSSON IN THE NIGHT (RCA). Having gone from pop poet to hard rocker in recent years, Harry Nilsson here croons his way back into the 1930s and 1940s...
...Journal. Goldberg died in 1970 at the age of 87. Neither Biographer Marzio's scholarly research nor the cartoonist's own occasional triumphs- he won a Pulitzer Prize for a cartoon in 1947 - can disguise the fact that the man had lost his inspired, raffish touch; most of his late work was simply dull. All of which poses a question: How can a person leave this or any similar book half unread without feeling the slightest qualm? With a bow to Professor Butts, one answer might be the cartoon below...
Silliest Goose. Made to order for the Osgood touch was a story about U.S. Ambassador to India Kenneth Keating, who liked to feed the waterfowl on an embassy pond. When he left the New Delhi post last summer, Keating's staff put up a bronze plaque commemorating his acts of "compassion and devotion" to the birds. Then one Foreign Service man told a subordinate that a proliferation of such plaques would clutter the clean lines of the Edward Durell Stone-designed embassy building. So the eager-to-please underling ordered the inscription sanded off the plaque, a bureaucratic half...