Word: algers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WHENEVER I AM TOLD that if only we had the White House tapes or a Liddy confession or a rigorous impeachment trial, we could determine the truth about Watergate and sift the guilty from the innocent, I think back 25 years to the case of Alger Hiss. I remember his accusers and defenders, his typewriter, his Ford and his Petersboro trip, the apartment he subletted and the carpet he received. I recall the facts and the denials, the interpretations and the re-examinations, the two trials and the endless press speculation. It has been almost a quarter century since...
...first five: the Alger Hiss case, the Checkers speech, Eisenhower's 1955 heart attack, the violence in Caracas during Nixon's 1958 trip, the Kitchen Debate with Nikita Knrushchev...
...does more. He plunges directly into its central vein and gauges the intensity of the pulse, a manic ebb and flow of raw human yearnings for wealth. Las Vegas is the ultimate embodiment of this process, stripped of genteel pretensions, and it is toward this mecca of the Horatio Alger dream that Thompson heads. He speeds dope-crazed along the desert in a rented convertible, The Great Red Shark, accompanied by his Samoan attorney. Ostensibly he is on assignment for an East Coast sporting magazine to cover the Mint 400, a renowned motorcycle race. But the story is thwarted when...
...prior knowledge of a major case is rather anachronistic in the era of mass communications. What is important is the maintenance of objectivity in the courtroom. Trials of famous defendants have, after all, been managed before. One constitutional law expert remembers, not without irony, that the perjury conviction of Alger Hiss survived despite claims that earlier congressional hearings had prejudiced the case. (Congressman Richard Nixon, of course, felt that the hearings were both necessary and nonprejudicial.) Since Sam Sheppard, defendants as celebrated as Jimmy Hoffa or Jack Ruby, whose murder of Lee Harvey Oswald was committed on television, have been...
Perot also has mounted a million-dollar-plus ad campaign that trades frankly on the appeal of his Horatio Alger career and apple-pie patriotism. "For 38 years of my life I was a 'little guy,' " reads one ad. "There are so many of us. We are America. We make this big engine go. That's why duPont is interested in the individual investor." To make duPont more accessible to small investors, Perot has opened its offices six days a week. He has even suggested that U.S. stock exchanges stay open 24 hours a day so that...