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...what he wanted; then a junior White House attorney, Geoff Shepard, would mark the passage and show it to Presidential Attorney Fred Buzhardt. Buzhardt would screen this and consult with St. Clair, who presumably would take the matter up with Nixon. The process, according to Frates, produced "only an inch or so" of material. Ehrlichman finally protested and left...
...Senate from Rhode Island (John Pastore retained the seat), and then in 1971 went to work as a speechwriter on the White House staff at a salary of about $30,000. To distinguish between his sacerdotal and political roles, he abandoned the Roman collar ("a one-inch piece of plastic") except for church events. Last week McLaughlin's superior, the Very Rev. Richard Cleary, Jesuit provincial of New England, issued a statement dissociating the Society of Jesus from McLaughlin's views and summoned him to report to Boston for prayer and reflection...
Drought is not the only enemy. Rain can be just as devastating. When the spring rains came to Ethiopia this March, they broke all known records. Ten inches fell in some sections in three days (compared with one-tenth inch last spring). The torrents washed away vital crops and thousands of tons of top soil. In Wallo province, worst hit by the famine, the deluge swept away villages and roads, overturned supply trucks and dangerously delayed relief efforts...
John McCulloh's fourth place in the high jump, with a 6 ft. 8 in. leap, puts the talented freshman in solid high jump company. McCulloh, who earlied jumped 6 ft. 10 in. said he was "only one inch short from being in the national championship." He hopes to get in that inch in the upcoming IC4A's at Pittsburgh...
Practice was three hours a day. As an undersized and underaged nine year old, I pleaded with Asher to let me be a part of this elite corps. He looked me in the eye, then drew his bulldog-like face right up to an inch of my nose and said: "Do you want to be part of a winner? Do you want to contribute to making the Bulldogs national champions? Do you want to be on that field in front of over 50,000 people when we go up to Chicago and play during the halftime of the Bears game...