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Congressman Wilbur Mills, the influential and powerful chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, added: "If Watergate brought pressure on Nixon to resign, our report will bring about a great deal more pressure. I don't believe that he will be able to withstand it." A congressional staff member said that Nixon may well wind up owing more than $500,000 in taxes and penalties. For the years 1970 and 1971 he paid less than $2,000 on a combined income...
Compared with a behemoth like Penn's John Engles, a burly 6 ft. 8 in. sophomore, Jenkins seems frail. Yet, he manages to withstand the buffeting, the sharp elbows and frayed tempers which are part of the rebounding chores...
...fondly. Little did they guess. At first Mother could hardly tell the difference between treacle and collodion, the sticky fluid used to coat her glass negatives. But she had an eye and the kind of cast-iron ego that always stands a photographer in good stead. "Few could withstand the extreme fury of her affection," Virginia Woolf wrote in the preface to the first edition in 1926 of Victorian Photographs, recalling Mrs. Cameron, who was the aunt of her mother, Mrs. Leslie Stephen...
...Crimson went ahead in the second half when Silver and Jenkins combined to sweep the boards and pulled the cagers away from a 28-23 half time deficit. Rohan's small squad couldn't withstand the offensive onslaught, and folded...
...bubble, manufactured by Air Tech Industries of Clifton, New Jersey, was designed to withstand eighty mile per hour winds. The 1968 opening was delayed three months as tests were conducted to determine the soundest building material...