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...sole check on whether the Nixon summary was complete and fair would be Nixon's personally selected auditor of the tapes: Mississippi Senator John Stennis, 72, a conservative Democrat who only recently recovered from critical bullet wounds sustained in a street robbery. Stennis would be given "unlimited access" to the tapes to verify Nixon's account of them, according to this plan. The selection of Stennis was perhaps the only unflawed element in Nixon's design. To his colleagues, it was inconceivable that he would have anything to do with a scheme to mislead the Senate...
...Bullet Eyes. In Washington, his songs were an infectious blend of Moorish folk chants, tough cafe tunes and lyric ballads of the Greek islands. Most were narrative in style. Some were set to his own poems (Put off the light! The guard is knocking./ Tonight they will come again"), others to those of the late George Seferis of Greece and Pablo Neruda of Chile. All were tuneful, simple, direct, almost thunderous in their momentum - and impossible to resist. Theodorakis conducted the concert with windmill waving of the arms that bespoke the amateur maestro but was nonetheless effective. When...
...Theodorakis is a tall, soft-spoken man with plentiful black curly hair and a soft expressive face pierced by close-set bullet eyes. Except, perhaps, in the six-room Paris apartment where he lives with his physician wife and their teen-age daughter and son, he rarely seems to relax his ideological stance...
Only in college football could coach Chet O'Neil opt to go for a two-point conversion and trade a tie for a win. And only in college football could quarterback Jim Kubacki fire a ten-yard bullet into Tom Lincoln's waiting arms to ice a cinderella victory...
...Santiago's National Stadium, where 5,000 political prisoners are still being held. The last time Hathaway saw his friend alive was when Teruggi was being led from their cell at the stadium by guards. A coroner's report said that Teruggi died of a bullet wound...