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Struggling to offset the damaging impact of the Watergate grand jury indictments, which charged that a criminal cover-up conspiracy had permeated the White House, President Nixon last week took the rare step of holding his second press conference within eight days. Though he was grim and nervous, he came across forcefully in defending his own role in that ill-fated scheme. But before the week was over, there were more indictments of his men, and a determined House Judiciary Committee pushed tenaciously ahead in its impeachment inquiry...
...Heinz gang was in top form Thursday and Saturday, to the tune of a 1-2 finish on the one-meter and a 1-5-6 on the three-meter. Grand total: 68 biggies, enough to offset Harvard's 397-351 advantage in the swimming events...
...George V. Gross, 49, an offset platemaker for the Government Printing Office...
...your loyalty!" From the palace courtyard, the Emperor received the expected cheers of support. But in Ethiopia's key garrison towns, where thousands of his soldiers were mutinying, the appeal fell on deaf ears. There, junior officers and enlisted men continued their rebellion, demanding higher wages to offset an inflation that since January has doubled the price of flour, rice and bread...
...question of aid for parents and teachers is the overriding concern with the running of the centers. A dependency allowance which "would partially offset the cost of child care" is accounted for by the Graduate Faculty of Arts and Sciences Financial Aid Director, Richard Kraus, said. The present dependency allowance is $650 per child. But allowances and money from the parents' resources cannot exceed the budget which the financial aid institutes, Kraus added...