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...operatives in the ranks sounded the alarm about E. Howard Hunt Jr. when their superiors didn't. The FBI agents on the line forced out L. Patrick Gray III when he admitted he burned the files. Justice Department investigators whispered their dismay over the cover-up at higher levels. If Watergate yields dividends, it could be that next time a civil servant hears the line "I have a mandate from the President ..." he will alert every one of his better instincts and ask every question he can think of before he acts...
Uncommon Cash. There was a conflict of a different kind when another Williams client, Teamsters Union President Frank Fitzsimmons, voiced dismay over Williams' zealous prosecution of the Democrats' case. Williams told him, "Back in the '40s, our other clients attempted to force us to drop the Teamsters as a client, and we made a rule that no client could influence our work for others. That rule was established for your benefit then, and it applies to you now." Fitzsimmons was unmollified, and he pulled the Teamsters account, which is worth more than $100,000 a year...
...used wastefully. The Office of Emergency Preparedness says that 54% of all trips are less than five miles-e.g., simply driving to the corner drugstore to buy a pack of cigarettes. Even on longer commutes to work, the average six-seat car contains only 1.4 people. To the dismay of Detroit, some conservationists propose a tax either on bigger engines (which burn more gasoline than smaller ones) or on poor gas-mileage performance: cars getting more than 20 miles per gallon would escape the tax altogether. Beyond that, all energy savers favor mass transit where possible -plus higher commutation...
Much to coach Harry Parker's dismay Harvard is considered the favorite in Saturday's important Adams Cup crew race against Navy and Penn on the Middies' Severn River course...
...attack on the Tha Vieng area in the Plain of Jars. U.S. embassy sources in Saigon, however, dismissed the attack as a minor action-"perhaps a squabble over rice." After two days the raids halted, which suggested that the B-52s were used more to dramatize U.S. dismay over the deteriorating situation in Indochina and less for specifically tactical purposes...