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...Special Watergate Prosecutor Leon Jaworski's office led to convictions or guilty pleas for 27 aides and agents of former President Richard Nixon. Last week they were joined by a former top aide to a high-ranking Democrat. A federal court in Manhattan convicted Minneapolis Lawyer Jack L. Chestnut, 42, who managed Hubert Humphrey's comeback campaign for the Senate in 1970, of accepting $12,000 in illegal campaign contributions from Associated Milk Producers...
...case of Chestnut, Government witnesses testified that he had used the $12,000 to pay for two months of advertising work for Humphrey's Senate campaign. Bob A. Lilly, former assistant to the AMPI general manager, told the court that on Chestnut's instructions he had sent Chestnut two checks for $6,000 each...
Appearing as a prosecution witness, Humphrey admitted that he had sought the support of the milk cooperative, but said that he had "no personal knowledge" of the financial arrangements, which had been left to "the campaign committee and Mr. Chestnut." After the verdict was handed down, Chestnut reiterated his testimony that he could not recall making arrangements for the contribution. He also claimed that he had thought that all AMPI contributions to the campaign had come from the cooperative's legitimate political arm and not from its corporate funds. Chestnut plans to appeal. If the verdict is upheld...
...Crimson will have two chances to break into the victory column this week, as the stickmen host the University of Massachusetts this Wednesday afternoon and then travel across town to Chestnut Hill to take on the Boston College Eagles Friday night...
Author O'Hanlon fulminates be cause he clearly loves his former coun trymen and women. He is too much the Irishman himself not to revel in the ver bal excitement of Dublin life and its "maddening, entertaining stew of provincial chauvinism." Inevitably, his book is crammed with old-chestnut anecdotes, pub gossip "laced with the in toxicating ingredient of malice," and sharp observations. Most of these, also inevitably, take a dying fall: the slipshod car-assembly center in Cork that turns out "lemons (or limes)"; those ash trays proudly bearing the Gaelic legend, Deanta sa tSeapain (Made in Japan...