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Patience Pays. The News first tried Secret Witness in 1950, but public apathy killed it. One staffer who never gave up on the idea was Boyd Simmons, then a reporter and now an assistant managing editor. Simmons, 58, revived the program and runs it personally. The program has been .a good circulation promotion (the News, at 653,000, is the biggest afternoon paper in the country) as well as a widely praised public service. "One of the reasons this program has succeeded is because there's just one man-me-dealing with the police," Simmons says. "The danger...
...letters is warm. At one point, the Berrigan letter addresses Sister Elizabeth as "love," and the Government is known to possess other letters of a more passionate and poetic character. How did the Government get these letters? They were carried in and out of the prison by Boyd Douglas, 30, a prisoner serving time for passing bad checks, pointing a gun at an FBI agent, and violating his parole on a previous fraud conviction. Douglas was trusted enough by prison officials to be allowed to leave his cell daily to attend history and political science classes at Bucknell University, also...
ROYETTA RULE-BOYD...
...Memphis, for example, conservationists howled in 1968 and 1969 when both the Johnson and Nixon Administrations' Transportation Secretaries (Alan S. Boyd and John A. Volpe) routinely approved a concrete invasion of the city's 342-acre Overton Park, which includes a zoo, golf course and wooded areas with footpaths. The Secretaries authorized federal funding for a 2.4-mile, six-lane section of Interstate 40. Though it was to have been built mostly below ground level, the road would have destroyed 26 acres of the park...
...after all, a friend of Father Philip Berrigan's-a close friend, he would add. True, there was something in his attitude, a superficiality, that caused some to question him. But whenever doubts were raised, those close to Berrigan would brush them aside. Their trust in Boyd F. Douglas was implicit. It was also misplaced; he is the informer upon whose testimony the Government's conspiracy charges against Berrigan and five other defendants depend heavily (TIME cover...