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Recent visitors to Nixon's Casa Pacifica compound report that his spirits and his health have taken an upturn. Actually, the dwindling staff seems more depressed than the boss. "How much can you walk on the beach?" asked one youthful aide last week. "We have developed a special bond with each other; we depend so much on each other. But it is the bitter life of exile...
...attorneys. Then Samuel Skinner, now Thompson's chief deputy, came across a 1941 case in Louisiana in which a federal mail-fraud statute was used to prosecute former associates of Huey Long. The defendants had happened to use the mail in the collection of inflated fees for a bond deal. Thompson's men looked closely and with growing delight. The law provided a maximum sentence of $1,000 and five years for anyone who used the mail in any "scheme or artifice to defraud...
...Masters and Johnson have produced a nontechnical book that they expect to clear their name: The Pleasure Bond (Little, Brown; $8.95), written by Robert J. Levin, an editor of Redbook, from taped interviews with the researchers and taped seminars that they conducted in 1971 and 1972. For Virginia Johnson, Masters' wife since 1971, the book is a decade late: she wanted to write about the human problems of sex in the 1960s, but her doctor-husband insisted that they establish professional credentials by writing up their lab experiments first. Now, at last, she says, "I hope the whole mechanical...
With oil revenues cascading into their city, Odessans enthusiastically approved a $20 million bond issue for the expansion of their hospital-at a time when larger cities have been voting down far more modest proposals...
...Crimson seems ignorant of the basic and vital fact that the CIA is a split personality. It is the Operations Directorate which dominates the popular conception of what the Agency is, playing dirty tricks, attracting right-wing whacko CREEPers like Howard Hunt and Bernard Barker, and inspiring the James Bond mythology; but this branch is the less important part of the CIA in terms of American national interests. It is the Intelligence Directorate, which David Riesman has aptly noted is one of the most left-wing agencies in the government, which is the most important half of the CIA, providing...