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Ordeal. The congressional rebuff of Gray marked the biggest personal setback for President Nixon since the rejection of his appointments of Clement F. Haynsworth Jr. and G. Harrold Carswell to the Supreme Court. Nixon said that Gray had been the victim of "totally unfair innuendo and suspicion," and defended both the White House's request to see the FBI files on the Watergate case ("completely proper and necessary") and Gray's compliance. But White House rationalizations notwithstanding, Congress seemed determined to diminish partisan influence in the FBI in the future...
China's struggle to feed its expanding population has suffered a new setback. Peking announced recently that grain output last year was down 10,000,000 metric tons from a high of 250 million tons in 1971. The reasons for the decline were heavy floods and windstorms in many parts of China and one of the worst droughts in a century in the northern provinces...
That spirit carried her through her one major setback so far: failure to win in the 1972 Winter Olympics at Sapporo. The Austrians went into that competition confident of success, and Annemie was expected to pick off a gold medal or two with little trouble. The team's morale was destroyed, however, the controversial disqualification of Star Skier Karl Schranz (TIME, Feb. 14, 1972), and Annemarie had to settle for a pair of silver medals. After that setback, she thought of giving up skiing, but the mood lasted only a short time. Then she threw herself into her harsh...
THERE was never much doubt that France's legislative elections would be a sharp setback for the party that President Georges Pompidou inherited from Charles de Gaulle four years...
Yale's win over the Tigers, which beat Harvard, 58-55, earlier this season in Princeton for the Crimson's only setback, further illustrated the incredible balance and quality of the league's top four teams. The home pool advantage has proved to be the difference in every meet featuring Dartmouth, Princeton, Yale or Harvard thus far this season. The fact that the Harvard - Yale showdown will be in Cambridge should give the Crimson a big psychological advantage...