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...Nixon tape? What did Nixon's pal, Bebe Rebozo, really do with $100,000 in campaign funds donated by Billionaire Howard Hughes? Last week, after 28 months of investigation, the Watergate Special Prosecution Force issued its final report -and shed no light on these questions. But the bland and incomplete report, prepared under the direction of the third special prosecutor, Henry S. Ruth Jr., who is retiring, did fine tune, for better or worse, the reputations of several men who played major roles in the drama...
...page report issued by the Labor Department, and a later preliminary state audit investigation, pinned the blame for the IBES's bad performance mostly on poor management. The findings read like a horror story in bland bureaucratic prose: employees confused about their responsibilities and shifted from job to job so frequently that they never learned their jobs; a near absence of planning; managers unaware of how many staffers they could hire; offices that were unclean and unsafe; chronic shortages of supplies; employees "indulging in frequent coffee breaks, extended lunch periods and early departures." Worst of all, the state study...
...Crimson deserved victory in this, its Ivy League opener, about as much as Gerald Ford deserves the presidency. Their defense was as bland and holey as an eighty-pound wheel of Kraft swiss, their offense devastating. But 15 minutes a football game does not make, and had not some higher power ordained that Columbia quarterback Mike Delaney should slip on fourth-and-two deep in Crimson territory with the Lions driving for the potential winning score late in the game, the celebration at Baker Field would still be going on this morning...
...upheld on First Amendment grounds of press freedom the right of the New York Times and the Washington Post to publish secret government documents on U.S. involvement in Viet Nam. Britain has no such written constitutional guarantee; governments have in the past had little trouble bullying the press into bland quiescence, and the courts have stood idly by. Jubilant British journalists greeted Lord Widgery's decision as a long stride in the other direction. "It ends the notion that civil servants should be protected in perpetuity with some sort of chastity belt," said Sunday Times Editor Harold Evans...
...wheedled a revealing kind of empathy out of you, at least if you were a woman (not necessarily a black woman), too. Not so nice to herself--nonetheless the poet kept a grip on her personality; it wasn't glamorous piece of public property tempered to complement the bland taste of everyman...