Word: wente
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Loyalty Test. Despite his blunder, Mitchell again proved his clout with Nixon. The President, Mitchell and Presidential Counsel John Ehrlichman went to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover's house on Washington's Linnean Avenue for dinner at midweek. Mitchell bore down heavily on the point that the Haynsworth affair was being turned into a political attack on the President. Agreed on that premise, Nixon and his Attorney General decided to cast the issue as a test of presidential prerogative and party loyalty. The Senate Republicans who opposed Haynsworth and those who had strong misgivings about him were selected...
Greatest Mockery. The determined Rivers then went over Resor's head. He made his pitch to Deputy Defense Secretary David Packard and Defense Secretary Melvin Laird. Both seemed unhappy with Resor's stand but were unwilling to overrule him in an intramural Army matter. Rivers then asked to see the President. Nixon ducked the confrontation, but sent his Congressional Aide Bryce Harlow to hear Rivers' plea. Rivers hardly needed to point out that he is a chief advocate of the President's ABM authorization bill that was before the House. What he did do was threaten...
...first-place votes went to the top three teams, with B.C. getting nine, Dartmouth, eight, and B.C. one. It was the first week that Harvard received no first-place votes...
...filled with plainclothesmen was trapped by the crowd as it ran forward. The trapped car gunned ahead into the crowd, injuring an undetermined number of demonstrators, some of whom "went flying through the air," according to an eyewitness...
...letter went on to say that the drug companies' profits are primarily determined by physicians' prescribing habits, which are developed in medical school and the first few years after...