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...report filed in July by the committee did not ignore the problem of Senate ethics. It recommended that Senate employees and Senators be required to file a statement of income in excess of their government salary. These proposals were strongly backed by the committee counsel McLendon who criticized the "cloak of immunity around the personal behavior of members." He implied that Senators self-righteously insist that their personal behavior be regulated not by law, but by conscience. McLendon's judgement proved correct. The relatively moderate report was defeated...
...witness in the federal trial of persons charged with a capital offense. Brodsky demanded and got a list of the names and home addresses of all 75 agents. The dilemma was obvious. Was the conviction of Sokolov and Joy Ann worth making public the identity of dozens of U.S. cloak-and-dagger men, thereby ending their usefulness? The Justice Department thought...
...soaring stature is also a measure of its cloak-and-dagger, sharp-elbowed driving to get the best...
Arriving at International Airport, Barry threw off the cloak of professional pessimism about his prospects. "The chances are excellent," he cried, "that we will win on the first ballot!" His audience shouted its approval as Barry continued: "But first ballot or not-win we will...
...somehow he seemed anything but resentful. At an 18th century costume ball for 600 given by Countess Sheila de Rochambeau at her chateau outside Paris, the duke in lace jabot and Royal Stewart tartan kilt danced the night away with his duchess, an enchantress ablaze in shimmering red cloak and white feathered wig designed by Yves St. Laurent...