Word: watching
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Sandy Smith, the bureau's investigative expert, keeps a specially close watch on federal law enforcement agencies. Hays Gorey is principally responsible for the Department of Justice and the operations of Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox. White House Correspondent Dean Fischer covers the President's efforts to respond to the continuing crisis. Simmons Fentress, in addition to covering the political repercussions of the scandal, has also been tracing and tallying G.O.P. fund raising and spending patterns during...
With that, everyone sat down around a coffee table to watch the Watergate segment of the news. Finally Edmisten said, "Well, look, I guess we ought to transact our business." He presented the committee's two subpoenas. Garment laboriously read the documents, then passed them to Wright, who also read them. Finally, as Edmisten and the others shook hands to go, Wright asked: "You don't happen to have one of those paperback Constitutions that Sam Ervin uses all the time, do you?" He was referring to the blue-covered Constitutions that Ervin passes out to constituents. Edmisten...
Nodding toward the Capitol chambers, Ehrlichman declared: "You can go over here in the gallery and watch a member totter onto the floor in a condition of at least partial inebriation. I think that is important for the American people to know. And if the only way it can be brought out is through his opponents in a political campaign, then I think that opponent has an affirmative obligation to bring that forward...
...death watch in Cambodia has begun. With signs of its vitality fast fading, the Phnom-Penh regime last week resembled a terminal patient approaching the end. As many as 12,000 Khmer insurgent troops had massed within a 20-mile radius of the capital. Some crept so close that they were within two-mile mortar range, from where they shelled the city, killing 20 civilians and wounding 75. TIME Correspondent Barry Hillenbrand was in Phnom-Penh to measure the life expectancy of the regime. His report...
...never as readable. He was usually sullen-faced, as if nursing some hatred or hurt inside. He didn't swagger when he walked like the others, or hang about in packs looking for Action. At tournament dances he would stand quietly with his hands in his pockets and watch the band. He'd answer congratulations with gruff monosyllabics and then avert his eyes. But his growl wasn't hostile, neither was it shy. His slowness to make friends came out of something deeper. He acted like someone angry inside, all the time. You respected Stockton, you laughed with Connors...