Word: weekended
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even as a few of the Senators most directly challenged by him recovered their composure and revealed some of the weaknesses in his position, the affable Georgian remained a cool and fluent witness. Though he absorbed some telling blows as the questioning continued into the weekend, Lance clearly picked up some support on the 17-member committee. As of last week, the committee apparently was almost evenly divided. Seven Senators leaned toward support of the Budget Director (Democrats Thomas Eagleton, Henry Jackson, John Glenn, Sam Nunn, James Sasser, and Lawton Chiles and Republican John Danforth); six seemed to oppose...
Unusually solemn, Lance focused his anger on two of the Senators sitting in judgment in front of him: Abraham Ribicoff. Democratic chairman of the committee, and. more scathingly, Charles Percy, the ranking Republican. As reported in a Labor Day weekend story in the Atlanta Journal Constitution, Lance noted, the Senators had sent three committee investigators to quiz Billy Lee Campbell, a former vice president of the Calhoun First National Bank, who was serving an eight-year prison term for embezzling nearly $1 million from the bank, mostly during the time that Lance was its president. Campbell had claimed that Lance...
Percy profusely apologized to Lance for causing him a Labor Day weekend of pain over the tax fraud reports-and fatuously claimed that he, too, had been appalled by the way the newspapers had interpreted his remarks. In fact, there was no other way Percy could have been read; he had, indeed, knowingly and quite precisely suggested that Lance may have intended to cheat on his income...
...thing seems to be certain-- the infamous Restic multiflex will be doing a lot less flexing this weekend. A new quarterback will mean a simpler offense, as the green signalcaller needs more than 48 hours to learn Restic's intricacies...
Although this weekend is the first weekend of the home sports season, most of the teams are not playing. As a matter of fact, only one team is playing, and that is the football team, which will be meeting UMass at the stadium Saturday at 1:50 p.m. The strange time is a result of ABC televising the game...