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...recommendation from Pitts could save the mill. As the sole architectural historian working for the National Park Service's history division, she decides what structures should be considered National Historic Landmarks. Pitts walks through the mill's vast, empty work space and taps a few dusty columns. Her verdict: "I think I'm playing with fire, but I'm still going to try to landmark...
...room displays bronze-tone, life-size statues of 10 world leaders, including Charles de Gaulle, Konrad Adenauer, Winston Churchill and Mao Zedong. Trying to hurry history's verdict, Nixon has always had a habit of dressing the set with giants, setting the delay timer, and then jumping into the picture himself...
After the verdict, Durenberger, his face creased by grief, declared, "I am sorry," and promised to give back the money as a "tangible sign of regret." At the same time, he pledged to spend the remaining four years of his current term "being the best Senator I can," showing that he may not yet grasp the gravity of his offenses. While the Senate Republican Conference could have stripped Durenberger of seniority rights and committee assignments, chairman John Chafee is reluctant...
...taping and editing, the Rusks still disagree over the war. But the father Richard allows to emerge from the minutiae of diplomacy is a role model for any boy: modest, confident, quietly effective and loyal to his bosses and his principles. "I won't be around for history's verdict," says Rusk, now 81 and ailing in his Georgia retirement, "and I am perfectly relaxed about...
Defense attorney Klieman also questioned the judge's rejection of her request to poll the jury members, a practice sometimes used to ensure that a verdict correctly reflects the views of the jurors. "The fact that the jurors were weeping," she said, "shows every single reason they should have been polled...