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...President's Committee on Employment of the Handicapped. That afternoon the President defended his tax-cut and budget policies in a luncheon speech to the trustees of the Committee for Economic Development, an association of high-level businessmen and educators. In a question-and-answer session afterward, he said that "it would be a mistake" to save money by slowing down U.S. space programs, predicted the Russians would make "spectacular efforts" in space "in the coming months." On other days last week, the President: > Named retired Navy Captain William Robert Anderson, 41, the man who in 1958 skippered...
...then was that he and a Teamster crony had received $1,008,057 in illegal payments from a trucking company, through a truck-leasing firm nominally owned by their wives. Judge William E. Miller declared a mistrial when the jury failed to reach a verdict (TIME, Jan. 4). Afterward, Miller said there had been evidence of "illegal and improper attempts" to influence jurors, and he ordered a special grand jury investigation. In its indictment, the grand jury charged that Hoffa, through one co-conspirator or another, made these offers: - > To the son of a juror named Gratin Fields...
...make the effort is Glasgow-born Bill Hall, 42, the Examiner's glib former Sunday editor, who unintentionally fast-talked himself into the job by complaining that the paper could not overtake the Chronicle without someone to rival Caen. "It's just like the Army," mused Hall afterward. "You complain about the food, so they make you mess officer...
...crewcut, greying man of 60, Ainsworth has a withered right arm and leg, and can use his left arm only from the wrist down as a result of childhood polio. He finished high school in Waco, Texas, in a wheelchair, but set out soon afterward for San Francisco to cover the 1920 Democratic National Convention, at space rates, for the local News Tribune. As it happened, the Democrats merited precious little space for nominating James M. Cox. "I got about $3," recalls Ainsworth. But he went on working for papers from San Pedro to Atlanta before landing a job with...
...notorious 1935 kidnaping, Weyerhaeuser then 9, was snatched between school and home, held eight days while his kidnapers collected a $200,000 ransom. Released unharmed, he showed up at a farmhouse outside Tacoma; his abductors were traced soon afterward through marked bills spent in Salt Lake City. William Mahan and Harmon Waley, who kidnaped the boy, are still in federal prison; Waley's wife, an accomplice, has been freed...