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...Position. Senator Sam Ervin's Watergate committee has already agreed to request use immunity for ten witnesses, but the Dean situation is without any real precedent. No White House official has ever been asked to testify against other White House officials. Equally without precedent is the three-way tug-of-war between the prosecutors, the congressional investigators and the witness himself...
...turned to the study of psychoanalysis. In 1912, she wrote to Freud and promptly joined his circle, then in Vienna. Once under his influence, she never escaped. Till the end of her life (1937) she remained his singularly uncritical devotee, and supported him at every tug on the orthdox line throughout the squabbles with Jung, Adler, Rank and the others...
...Cambridge School Committee Tuesday night concluded a three-year tug-of-war for new high school facilities by approving a $23.4 million construction package that will give Cambridge two completely new high schools. The two present high schools, Rindge Tech and Cambridge High and Latin, will both be razed in favor of the new buildings...
...what he considered "our contract with our readers to tell them the truth." The political truth, as Luce saw it, lay in Bull-Moose Republicanism. The extent to which TIME should reflect that view in its reporting was a sore issue between Luce and some of his editors. The tug of war was fiercest in 1952, when Luce became personally involved in backing Dwight Eisenhower's nomination for President...
TONIGHT FECHTOR will give an hour-and-a-half one-man performance on the Loeb mainstage. The program includes pieces such as Tug of War, Suicide, The Piano Mover, The Kite, The Room and The Creation of the World. ("In my particular version of the creation of the world, I play God," says Fechtor.) Some of the pieces have plots, but Fechtor prefers to stress style. "Technical aspects are more important to me than showmanship aspects," he says. "People who come expecting to compare my show to Marceau's are going to be rather disappointed." Don't let his warning...