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...support it. This burden is the heaviest one of all to bear. That the way I tried to deal with Watergate was the wrong way is a burden I shall bear for every day of the life that is left to me." After this statement, Nixon's aides withdrew behind the wall of silence that has surrounded San Clemente for weeks. Nixon himself was not even on the estate at the time of the announcement. He and his wife had left by car, unobserved, earlier that morning...
...Housing starts have fallen 38% in the past year, to an annual rate of 1.3 million, and seem likely to go even lower. Little money is available at any price. Savings and loan associations, the prime source of mortgage money, lost $582 million in deposits in July, as savers withdrew their funds to seek higher interest than...
...there were. When the couple arrived at the church, Mrs. Morreale was told that her son would not be baptized unless and until she withdrew her support of the proposed abortion clinic. Roussin and the church's pastor, Monsignor Francis X. Meehan, feared that her views on abortion so seriously contradicted church teachings that the child could not be brought up as a believing Catholic. They may have misunderstood Mrs. Morreale, who says she does not favor abortion herself, only the right of others to choose it. But one church canon does enjoin priests from baptizing an infant unless...
...junked my Harvard career in the spring of sophomore year. I withdrew from the university with no intention of returning and transferred to Stanford University. I figured that Stanford was the perfect compromise: I could continue my education at the "Harvard of the West" while simultaneously enjoying the pleasures of California. I figured wrong. When strangers said hello to me while walking by on campus, I would quicken my pace and look the other way. How well I had learned my lessons at Harvard...
...ordinations. "A bishop's authority to ordain can be effectively exercised only in and for a community which has authorized him to act for them, and as a member of the Episcopal college," the bishops declared. That wording apparently was strong enough for Robinson and his colleagues, who withdrew their charges, but accusations could still be filed by others...