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Although unreeled in flat, dry phrases, the findings of fact by the tapes panel, and the testimony that followed, furnished a plethora of tantalizing clues with which much of the nation could join a grim whodunit game of mystery solving. After all Nixon's professions of innocence, his multiple promises of full disclosure, his vows to "get at the truth," someone terribly close to the Oval Office was still destroying evidence, obstructing justice and lying about the crime...
From the moment a grim Joe Frazier enters North Philadelphia's Cloverlay Gym in his Smokin' Joe T shirt, he seems to be in constant motion. Inside the ring he dodges imaginary blows; he launches lefts and rights at the air, then spars for four hard rounds. Next Frazier pounds the bags as if hoping to shred them. The workout ends with 20 sit-ups and a beating around the gut with the medicine ball that brings a roar from the mixed crowd of fighters, trainers and well-dressed onlookers who drop in for the free show. Before...
...loss of five teachers in a department as large as History may seem insignificant. The attitudes towards educational priorities that are reflected in this choice, however, are not insignificant. Even though faced with a very grim financial picture, the University's first slice of the axe should not be off teachers' budgets. Budget priorities that allow for a cutback in teaching staff at the same time as a projected increase in the size of undergraduate classes are irresponsible...
...fall, the energy crisis burst upon the U.S. with the emotional impact of a modern-day handwriting on the wall. After a long Belshazzar's feast of energy gluttony, it seemed, Americans were being called to a bitter reckoning. The winter loomed as a grim season of cold bedrooms and chilly classrooms, of painful shortages of oil-related products ranging from phonograph records to penicillin, of cramped inability to travel, of shuttered factories and high unemployment. And that supposedly would be only the start of a new lifestyle of thrift, sharing and self-denial -spiritually cathartic, perhaps, but hardly...
...thrifty and that bypasses pressure to print glossies of executives. In 1972 Managing Editor Frederick Taylor outlawed the word "reform" on the conservative principle that not all change is for the better. The Journal has enormous impact on its main beat. On the day it ran a grim front-page report listing the expected impact of the Arab oil boycott, industry by industry, the stock market dropped 24 points...