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PRINCE CHARLIE'S BLUFF...
Warren's success as a prosecutor inexorably pushed him toward a political career. Bluff, blond, big as a bear (6 ft. 1 in., over 200 lbs.), with a reassuring Scandinavian air of wholesomeness, he came across as the ideal public man. He had a family to match. In 1925 he married a widow of Swedish descent, Nina Palmquist Meyers, adopted her son and then sired five children of his own. An inveterate joiner (Masons, Elks, et al.) with a loose, easy "How are yuh, good to see yuh" handshaking style, he was a Republican whose personal constituency crossed party...
...exquisite 16th century Villa Madama, overlooking Rome from atop the bluff of Monte Mario, is normally an Italian government guest house for visiting heads of state. Originally, the formal gardens, fountains and frescoed ceilings of the villa, designed by Raphael for Pope Clement VII, provided the setting in which the Medici Pope wheedled, wheeled and dealed. Last week, that atmosphere temporarily returned. Caught in a political crisis and under orders from President Giovanni Leone to resolve it rather than resign, representatives of the parties in Premier Mariano Rumor's ruling center-left coalition gathered in the Villa Madama...
...Jerry Brown hardly resembles his bluff, amiable father. The son is a bachelor, cool and withdrawn, who was once a Jesuit seminarian. In one of his rare flashes of humor, Brown cracked that his Jesuit schooling had given him unique qualifications for office: "Who else in the race has had eight years of Latin and four of Greek...
That decision--calling Nixon's bluff on his bid to refuse evidence to the government prosecutors--backed the president against a wall. Cornered by incriminating disclosure on the one hand and public outrage over acts of non-compliance on the other, Nixon stands on the brink of disgrace...