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...week by dramatic-and so far unsubstantiated-charges made by a convicted Watergate conspirator. James W. McCord Jr., the former security coordinator of the Committee for the Re-Election of the President, testified that some of Nixon's closest advisers were fully aware of the plan for the breakin and bugging of Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington's Watergate complex last June and had approved of it. In the face of such charges, Republican Congressmen as well as many G.O.P. stalwarts in all walks of life were highly critical of Nixon's decision merely to authorize...
...Some of the men who were in various positions on the committee when the Watergate case broke on June 17 have since scattered (see chart). Liddy was fired from the committee on June 28 when he refused to answer FBI questions. Sloan left the committee shortly after the Watergate breakin. John Mitchell, the former Attorney General, was head of the Nixon committee at the time but quit on July 1, ostensibly because his wife Martha wanted to get him out of politics. So far unexplained is the mystery surrounding Martha Mitchell's claim that only five days after...
...Caddy jailed for contempt was unusual, since judges are normally sensitive about protecting lawyer-client privileges. Prosecutors wanted to know how Caddy had heard about the arrests; investigators apparently believe that he was tipped by members of the bugging conspiracy who had not taken direct part in the headquarters breakin...
...idea with high Air Corps brass. The result was the famous Question Mark flight of 1929, in which Quesada and future bannerline Air Force Generals Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz and Ira Eaker participated. Refueled by a second plane, Question Mark, an Army Fokker monoplane, stayed aloft for a record-breakin 6½ days, and it made aviation history: in-flight refueling has long been an essential technique of the U.S. Air Force...
...story of the age of slaughter when, in the space of 20 years, the hide hunters wiped the buffalo herds from the face of the West. From Texas to Idaho they left "nothin but bones layin white in the sun like an alkali flat . . . and the wagon wheels breakin em like sticks." Milton Lott. 35-year-old millwright who got a Houghton Mifflin fellowship for this first novel, was born and raised in the Snake River country, the scene of his story. He describes his hunters' comfortless lives with an intimacy of detail that makes fine reading even...