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Tennessee's Howard Baker and North Carolina's Sam Ervin were determined to pierce the shell of Executive privilege with which Nixon sought to protect the papers. Letters were exchanged. First, Nixon, on July 6, flatly refused to let the committee see any White House documents. He also stated that he would not agree to testify before the committee...
This concern for urban fabric led Weese to his first renovation job-Chicago's Auditorium Theater. Designed by Adler and Sullivan in the 1880s, it had become a U.S.O. club with bowling alleys and finally ended as a neglected shell. Its roof leaked; its 4,000 velvet-covered seats were rotting. Weese meticulously restored the stately interior with its soaring arches, curving balconies and richly ornamental plaster friezes. The work cost $2,000,000 and was finished in 1967. The result: a glowing, golden concert and opera hall with near perfect acoustics...
...sure, if enemy guns shell the area, Ta Lung's guns respond to silence them...
Brudno's death tragically confirmed the warnings sounded by psychiatrists before release of the prisoners. They had predicted that many men might return emotionally scarred for life (TIME, Feb. 19). Los Angeles Psychoanalyst Helen Tausend had said that captivity may leave a P.O.W. "only the shell of a man," and Yale Psychiatrist Robert J. Lifton had suggested that the war's unpopularity would lead many prisoners to conclude that their suffering had been in vain. Something like this may have happened to Brudno. Like all suicides, Brudno's act must have had many causes, some predating...
...ceremony at Weld Boat House, the Cliffe rowing team announced that the new eight-oared shell purchased by the Harvard Board of Overseers will be known as the "Matina Souretis Horner," that the new four will be called the "Carol Pforzheimer," and that the new pair will be the "Mary Paget...