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...Beyond crimes relating to the Watergate coverup, the President must also consider that criminal allegations could result from some or all of the ongoing investigations into his tax declarations, the ITT affair, the milk fund, the purported sale of ambassadorships, and the Ellsberg psychiatrist breakin. Moreover, there are the lesser specters of disbarment proceedings, endless appearances as a witness in the trials of others, and civil suits by various individuals who were bugged on presidential orders, or even by taxpayers challenging expenditures at San Clemente and Key Biscayne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Citizen Nixon's Legal Problems | 5/20/1974 | See Source »

Bruce Collier, research associate in the Office of Instructional Research and Evaluation, said yesterday that students who received their seventh or lesser choice will be allowed to switch Houses...

Author: By Mark W. Lomax, | Title: CHUL Accepts Revised Rules For House-to-House Transfers | 5/2/1974 | See Source »

...continued to comb through the entire Bay Area. Their working assumption was that the S.L.A. had several "safe houses" in the area where members could hide out, meet, plan and disband, once again melting into the radical scene. Agents also assumed that the group was so anonymous that lesser-known members, such as Camilla Hall and Angela Atwood, can be sent

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Hearst Nightmare | 4/29/1974 | See Source »

...most steel mills there are basically three kinds of jobs: well-paid craft and production posts for whites, dirtier and lesser-paid jobs for minorities and clerical jobs for women. A landmark consent decree signed last week by the United Steelworkers of America and nine major companies* promises to change that situation. The agreement, which ends a Government suit against the companies and the union, is the first job-discrimination settlement to cover almost an entire industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Busting Bias in Steel | 4/29/1974 | See Source »

TAKING ONESELF TOO seriously is always a gamble. Failures that lesser writers could get away with leave gaping holes in Hawkes's work. Allert's wife, Ursula, for example, never quite achieves mythic stature and threatens to remain little more than a parody, lounging about in a state of perpetual langour that is supposed to suggest sensuality. Hawkes only makes things worse with his clumsy explanation...

Author: By James Gleick, | Title: Waking To Sleep | 4/27/1974 | See Source »

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