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Last week he reluctantly directed the committee to conduct full hearings on whether Nixon should be impeached. Albert does not want to believe that impeachment might happen. "I think it would be a traumatic experience for the nation," he says. "I would lean over backward to give the President the benefit of the doubt." Although he has generally supported his foreign policies, Albert has never admired Nixon as a man. Nonetheless, he declares: "I am not doing this out of animosity for Nixon. I have an overwhelming constitutional responsibility to see that we in the House...
...born out of our own reality and which obliges us--in the case of this continent--to unify. And looking farther away, beyond Latin America, we understand that in Africa there are still millions and millions of human beings whose lives are inferior to the most poor and backward people on our continent...
Mississippi Attorney General A.F. Summer complained that "this certainly creates an anomaly. The time for payments has been moved backward from birth to conception. I hope they decide to stop there. If we have to begin with the gleam in the eye, who will do the counting and the certifying?" Summer is appealing the decision, as are the losers in all the other cases...
...Hope, 70, is celebrating his 23rd year on TV and with Actress Ann-Margret, 32, enacts his version of the Billie Jean King/Bobby Riggs tennis match. Playing out of a phone booth while talking to his agent, occasionally reading a magazine, looking at her backward through a mirror or milking a cow, "Bobby Higgs" is handily beating an irate "Billie Jean Margret." Until she starts doing bumps and grinds, at which point he strips down to star-spangled shorts and starts a verbal rally. "I've a better forehand, backhand and much prettier legs," Higgs boasts. "Are those your...
...sense Hawkins has already had his wish-with the help of aerial surveys, radiocarbon dating and a computer. As a Boston University astronomer, he has been able to program the orbits of the sun and moon, then order a computer to trace them backward in time...