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...widely assumed that the tapes he is withholding are at least as harmful to his cause as the conversations he has already released?and little more is needed to convince all but his diehard supporters in Congress that he was part of the cover-up conspiracy. Although no one could be sure, the additional material might even provide evidence to satisfy Presidential Defense Attorney James St. Clair's narrow definition of an impeachable act: A serious, indictable crime. Few constitutional scholars agree with St. Clair's restrictive view; most consider such a broad offense...
...physician, Gruening graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1912, then abandoned medicine for journalism. He resigned as managing editor of the Boston Traveler when its publisher retracted an exposé of mayoral malfeasance; then he successively edited the Boston Journal, New York Tribune and the Nation, and became a diehard New Dealer. Named Governor of Alaska by President Roosevelt in 1939, Gruening forced absentee salmon and gold interests to pay their fair share of territorial taxes. After agitating successfully for Alaska's statehood, he went to the Senate in 1959 where, five years later, only he and Wayne Morse...
...some diehard followers will celebrate Harvard's 100th anniversary with a parade from the Yard down across the Charles and to the Stadium. The parade starts at 3:45 p.m. and features the Harvard Band...
Doctors at Tokyo's First National Hospital have discovered one way to prevent middle-age spread: jungle living. They ran some 200 tests on ex-Lieut. Hiroo Onoda, 52, the diehard loyalist who returned home triumphantly after nearly 30 years in a Philippines jungle, where he had continued fighting World War II. The findings: Onoda is healthier than most of his contemporaries who live off the fat of the land. His body is supple, his muscle tone is good and his animal instincts are honed: his eyes move constantly, he hears clothing brush against skin, and he wakes fully...
...screenwriter who's hit the skids. Forced to write a screenplay of a trashy novel he hasn't read--sort of like the way our Stage encapsulist sometimes operates, we guess--Bogart snares a hat-check girl who explains the book to him and then gets strangled. For diehard fans of Bogart, or of Police Gazette...