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Correspondents James Willwerth and Sandy Smith reported from the New York firing line, and from their own experience as thug watchers. Willwerth's first brush with the Mob dates back to 1969, when an anonymous phone call took him from Manhattan to Tucson, Ariz., and a three-hour interview...
Winchell reached his strident peak with the program he took to the airwaves in 1933. Before long, one-third of the adult U.S. population was poised by radios each Sunday night to hear the familiar, high-pitched voice announce above the urgent sound of a telegraph key: "Good evening, Mr...
The multiple Kissinger forays represent a triumph of a determined Government's ability to protect a secret. To achieve it, the number of officials advised of the missions was kept astonishingly low. The select circle included Kissinger's close-mouthed deputy, Brigadier General Alexander Haig; another aide and confidant, Winston...
Last week Nixon appointed Peterson, 45, the Secretary of Commerce. He will succeed Maurice Stans, 63, a close confidant of Nixon's who is being assigned to repeat his effective 1968 performance as chief fund raiser for Nixon's election campaign.
Died. Edwin Weisl, 74. longtime confidant of Lyndon Johnson; of a heart attack; in West Los Angeles, Calif. An up-from-the-tenements Wall Street lawyer with an earthy demeanor, Weisl first met Johnson at the urging of F.D.R.. who described the lanky Texan as "a live Congressman [with...