Word: touche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kissinger lends a touch of class to a very unclassy Administration...
...proper against a sitting Vice President. Although there is no indication that President Nixon is in danger of indictment, one of his arguments against the Watergate grand jury's demand for the tapes was similar to the expected Agnew claim: that the grand jury has no authority to touch the President unless he is first impeached and removed from office. Legal scholars differ on whether the President and Vice President are in precisely the same position under the law on this point...
...desperation, the four conspirators and their families have been seeking help from every direction. Besides continuing to confer with their original attorney, Daniel Schultz of Washington, D.C., they have also been in touch with two others: Thomas Clifford, the U.S. public defender in Connecticut, and Ellis Rubin, a flamboyant Miami lawyer known for his fervent espousal of Cuban-refugee causes as well as his many losing races for local public office...
...assassination attempt on Wallace. When the two paralytics got together, it was obvious that they were not down in spirits. Counseled Wallace: "The fact that we're in this position doesn't preclude a useful and pleasurable life." Replied Chris, who manages to play baseball and even touch football and who since his accident has learned to ride a horse and do wheelchair tricks: "That's it in a nutshell. We can't stand up, but there are so many other things...
...Touch of Class. Sometimes fun. Glenda Jackson and George Segal in a film that can't decide whether to place itself in the thirties or the seventies, as far as sex roles are concerned. Jackson is a divorced English dress designer, and Segal is a confused American (aren't we all?). Charles. 2-10, every 2 hours...