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This time McNamara did not call the FBI, but summoned his Air Force inspector general, burly, crew-cut Lieut. General W. H. ("Butch" I Blanchard. The general swept right into the leak-seeking game by calling Reporter Fryklund to his office and asking him point-blank who gave him the memo. Fryklund stood firm upon his obligation to protect his sources, so Blanchard unleashed his plainclothes investigators...
...tennis?' they asked each other, 'when you know it will fall into the hands of Kramer?'" At first, Kramer tried to build up the pro game, signed new players: Denmark's Kurt Nielsen, Chile's Luis Ayala, the U.S.'s Barry MacKay and Butch Buchholz. "But it soon became clear," wrote Kramer, "that my pro tour could not thrive on its own without open championships." So he decided to get out completely-in hopes that the I.L.T.F. would reconsider. Will it work? "That's up to the people in control of the amateur...
Neither he, however, nor the other announced candidate, ex-Lt. Governor Harold (Butch) Powers, will beat Nixon. They threaten him because they may hopelessly disrupt the still-weak Nixon organization his supporters have been building since his return to the state last year...
Knight's withdrawal left Nixon with two rivals for the chance to oppose Democratic Incumbent Edmund ("Pat") Brown in November. One is Harold J. ("Butch") Powers, 61, lieutenant governor under Knight, who has done no campaigning to date, hopes to inherit Knight's following ("He and I always saw eye to eye," says Powers). The other, more serious challenger to Nixon is Assemblyman Joseph C. Shell, 43. Shell has been buzzing busily around the state, piloting his own Beechcraft Bonanza from one campaign appearance to the next. A onetime University of Southern California halfback, husky...
Last week, the Patriots lambasted Buffalo, 52 to 21. Among the heroes, as usual, were quarterback Butch Songin, an itinerant athlete who at 37 is the league's third-ranking passer, and Cappelletti, who by kicking and receiving has already tallied 96 points...