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...twice, unsuccessfully, for President). His strident anti-Communism-plus the 30,000 state troopers at his command-won him a place in the 1964 revolution that overthrew Jango Goulart. True enough, he had a few bad moments when the reform-bent military regime started out with a purge of corrupt politicians, but his name never appeared on the purge lists. Friends among the top brass managed to cross it off in the nick of time...
...opportunity was a letter to the editor of the Washington Evening Star in which Columnist Andrew Tully said: "Lately Moyers seems to be spending most of his time, when he is not running the war in Viet Nam or solving inflation, telling Washington reporters how stupid and even corrupt they are." Retorted Fleming: "Bill Moyers made two speeches about reporting, because he shares my belief that if the press does not produce enough criticism of itself, it will not maintain the important position it has. If Tully is as good a reporter as he would like to be, he would...
...Raiders. In a report based on a series of hearings last year, the subcommittee asserted that Saxon's policy of liberal charters for new banks had attracted financial raiders, confidence men and other "unscrupulous and corrupt persons" into banking. The subcommittee was especially critical of Saxon's role in the events leading to the 1965 failure of the San Francisco National Bank, whose charter had been approved by Saxon's predecessor. The McClellan group thought it "inexplicable" that Saxon had withheld information about the bank's perilous condition from the Federal Reserve, which was advancing...
...Encyclopedist's book, Suzanne threatens suicide after one mother superior tries to seduce her, a monk tries to rape her and various other unconventional happenings deprive her of both vocation and bodily peace. Diderot meant his book less as an anticlerical attack than an attack on the corrupt society of the 18th century, which frequently forced illegitimates into the church. Recognizing it as such, Rome never placed it on the Index of forbidden reading for Catholics. It is, in fact, today regarded as a French classic and studied in French schools...
Castro accused Almeijeiras of having "close relations with antisocial elements, vagabonds, bums and corrupt people," and more specifically, with Rolando Cubela, another Havana man about town sent up for 25 years this month for plotting Castro's assassination (TIME, March 18). Castro absolved Almeijeiras of any guilt in the plot, but claimed that he demonstrated "the same instability of character and lack of seriousness as Cubela...