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...making any official accusations yet, but in the midst of a curious noncooperation from the White House and the Committee for the Re-Election of the President, the suspicion grew that someone not far from the center of Republican power in Washington had engineered the Watergate Caper...
...just a strip of masking tape, but it is fast stretching into the most provocative caper of 1972, an extraordinary bit of bungling of great potential advantage to the Democrats and damage to the Republicans in this election year...
What began as a grand and intricate caper, a hoax of hoaxes hatched on a Spanish island, ended last week in two Manhattan courtrooms. Author Clifford Irving, his wife Edith and Researcher Richard Suskind were sentenced to jail terms for fabricating an autobiography of Howard Hughes and selling it to the McGraw-Hill Book Co. for $750,000. In a federal court, Irving was given 30 months, Edith two months, with Edith going to jail first so that their two children will not be deprived of both parents at one time. Suskind, who helped with the research on the bogus...
...Gambino caper proved so perplexing that a special federal grand jury was impaneled last week to sort out the details. As pieced together by Justice Department officials, the case sounds like a chapter out of The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight. It seems that the missing nephew, Emmanuel ("Manny Boy") Gambino, 29, was not one of Uncle Carlo's favorites. Assigned as a loan shark, Manny doled out the better part of $1,000,000 in Gambino family money to borrowers who were very tough in resisting his demands for repayment. Worse yet, a few months...
...decades. Among her supporters is Composer-Conductor Pierre Boulez, an authority on Stravinsky and his music, who accuses Craft of "a great falsification of the image of Stravinsky." The New York Times, the initial forum for Libman's charges, has also divulged what might be called the crayfish caper. In 1966, a story appeared in the Times under Craft's byline describing a visit by Stravinsky to Strasbourg, France. According to Craft: "After unpacking [Stravinsky] sped to the roof restaurant ostensibly for a view of the old city, which clings to the cathedral like chicks around the mother...