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...CLAYTON W. DAVIS Newport News...
...nation's largest black communities in Congress. A Harlem native, Rangel returned to New York City after combat in Korea to win a law degree, appointment as an Assistant U.S. Attorney and election to the state assembly. After a bruising contest in 1970, he narrowly defeated Adam Clayton Powell for the Democratic nomination to Congress. Two years later he was re-elected with 96% of his district's vote. The ebullient Rangel is chairman of the congressional Black Caucus and a Judiciary Committee member who outspokenly advocates the President's impeachment...
...weeks ago the White House had slipped an advance copy of the transcripts to the Tribune because the paper's publishers intended to run the full text, which they did. Shortly before the Tribune's presses started running with its editorial, Presidential Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler called Tribune Editor Clayton Kirkpatrick, long a supporter of Nixon policies, and urged him to reconsider. The record, Ziegler argued, was incomplete. "You made it so," Kirkpatrick shot back. Ziegler finally said he was very sorry that the Tribune was moved to take such a position. "I'm kind of sorry about it myself...
...Chicago Tribune accomplished both the coup of the week and a milestone in U.S. newspaper production. The paper got the entire document (in 44 pages) into most of its Wednesday morning editions. Behind that startling accomplishment lay a Monday-night decision by Tribune Publisher Stanton Cook and Editor Clayton Kirkpatrick, plus some inspired legwork by the paper's Washington staff. Early Tuesday morning, a Trib jet carrying three editors and two printing superintendents took off for Dulles Airport, where a copy of the transcripts arrived at 8:30 a.m., six hours ahead of the regular distribution. Trib executives would...
...Clayton does take a shot at a little easy irony now and again - like using the song Ain't We Got Fun as counterpoint to the drawing-room tragedy. But he is as captivated by the bounties of wealth as Gatsby was, and spends endless minutes gliding his camera around expensive rooms or across the crowded floor of Gatsby's galas, all staged with a certain lavish clumsiness. This gives the film a numbing, punishing quality, as if everyone were trapped at some purgatorial party that will never end. At a running time of close to 2% hours...