Word: circuitous
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...were quickly reviewed by officials at the department's highest levels to see if the tactics used by the actor-agents in the field were proper. Moreover, each actual cash payoff was witnessed by a Justice Department attorney, who sat in an adjoining room and watched a closed-circuit TV monitor. In some instances, the attorney would telephone one of the agents serving the sheik, if the bribe suggestions were getting too bold. The agent picking up the telephone would be advised to ease the pitch...
Richard Kelly, a third-term G.O.P. Congressman from Florida, was once a state circuit judge who was impeached by the state's house for harassing lawyers and fellow judges (the senate subsequently dismissed the charges). Later ordered by the Florida judicial qualifications commission to undergo psychiatric examination, Kelly visited a hospital on his own and earned a clean bill of health. That enabled him, on entering the House in 1975, to claim: "I'm the only member certified to be sane...
...case, Ford will not let talk of an eventual candidacy die. Trim, tan and in splendid spirits, he is easily the most active non-candidate around, averaging 18 days of travel a month and earning about $500,000 a year on the rubber-chicken circuit. Last week was typical. He flew from his $692,000 home in Rancho Mirage, Calif., to Salt Lake City for a dinner speech to Utah Republicans, then went the next day to Las Vegas for a lunchtime address to the United Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Association. That afternoon the ex-President, wearing light blue paisley...
...Then, as an overflow audience of 20,000 jammed Oxford's scruffy town hall to hear a Southern-drawled sermon on sin, a number of students decided to be sophomoric. Some heckled Graham as a fascist, others set off the hall's fire alarm and cut closed-circuit TV cables that were carrying his message to 5,000 listeners in five other auditoriums. The preacher, now 61, took his hazing with saintly calm. "I hope for that sort of thing," he said. "It adds to the excitement...
Jane Beal, press secretary in Kennedy's Boston campaign headquarters, said yesterday the senator will address the public for about 45 minutes in the Forum. The speech will be shown simultaneously on closed circuit television in Sanders Theater...