Word: alcoholism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY. Director: George P. Shultz. Total employees: 117,462; 100-200 directly involved in intelligence. Oversees Bureau of Customs and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. Thus responsible for narcotics investigations. Department also includes Secret Service, which protects President and other top officials, maintains liaison with Interpol, the international criminal police organization...
Dirty Business. Caulfield, a former New York City police detective who joined Nixon's 1968 presidential campaign staff as chief of security, is now a $31,200-a-year Treasury Department official in charge of enforcing laws regulating firearms, alcohol and tobacco. He issued a press statement saying that McCord had tried "fully and fairly" to recall their conversations, but that he disagreed with the testimony in some unspecified respects. Still, he conceded, "it is true that I met with Mr. McCord on three occasions in January and conveyed to him certain messages from a high White House official...
...there also, he tells himself, "to save my life." But his first-aid program calls for steady transfusions of alcohol, a spicy diet of youthcult flicks and, in desperate moments, mouth-to-mouth sessions with a girl reporter. Craig also broods about his past (he has been an s.o.b. to a lot of little people) and agonizes over his future. His soul-searching is sup ported by a pulpy cast that includes his own Antonioni-bred daughter, his Irish agent, an embittered ex-screenwriter, an aging movie mogul, several leering French waiters and - since this is Cannes - a falling-down...
...making her first Broadway appearance, Rhonda Fleming, 49, seemed to be posing for a camera rather than playing to an audience. Of the stage veterans, Dorothy Loudon and Mary Louise Wilson are tartly expert comediennes, and Jan Miner is wonderfully hilarious as a countess addicted to husbands (five) and alcohol (90-proof...
...wanted to hear Schoenberg, Hindemith, Stravinsky, and Bartok-but he could never find the time. Married twice, his amorous escapades were infamous. He was charming, monstrous, lonely, tortured. He was trapped in the upside-down world of jazz. Day began at dusk and ended whenever the counterfeit glow of alcohol, drugs and sex wore off. He began to use heroin to unlock the doors of creativity the way Coleridge used opium and Schiller inhaled rotten apples. Finally he lost the trick of living off the top. "Do as I say and not as I do," he admonished Trumpeter Red Rodney...