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Chairman Otis Pike was piqued. His House Select Committee on Intelligence had subpoenaed an internal State Department memo, and Secretary Henry Kissinger had refused to hand it over. Convinced that the Secretary was covering up, Pike pressed his committee to cite Kissinger for contempt of Congress...
Then Robert McCloskey, the State Department's liaison man with Capitol Hill, swung into action. He persuaded House leaders that such a contempt citation would badly damage Kissinger's prestige abroad. Thereupon, these men mounted a quiet campaign of friendly persuasion among committee members. The result: Pike's colleagues overruled him and voted 8 to 5 merely to invite Kissinger to explain in person why he refused to release the memo...
...politicians," Reeves admits. "I don't feel any great obligation to recount their many and varied personal and professional virtues. That is what they, or the taxpayers, are paying for in the salaries and fees of press secretaries, media advisers and advertising agencies." He picked up his fond contempt for politicos from the fetid municipal air of Jersey City, where he grew up as the son of a county judge. "There were two groups of politicians there," Reeves recalls, "those who sold out and those who went to jail...
Familiarity may have bred some contempt, but novelty of another sort has probably proved much more upsetting. In this more cynical opinion, Americans in their role as viewers are not very adventurous. They dote on old pals-Marcus, Archie, Dear Little Mary. They have gone through a lot with them and are loyal through thin and thin. They even resent seeing their good buddies shoved out of old time slots. This year the ludicrous family viewing hour forced unprecedented tinkering with new shows and much rescheduling. CBS and NBC compounded this upset with lineups filled with new programs that turned...
...tutor, doesn't help matters any by giving a generally lackluster performance that makes his sudden access of emotion in this sequence seem violently out of place. Bland and mechanical throughout most of the play, Martin's tutor is hardly human enough to merit either our pity or contempt...