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...chairman were due to be curbed by a reform-minded Democratic caucus in any case, it looked as if he could keep his chair if he was willing to fight for it. Then came his fatal foray into Boston, a trip that Mills undertook, he later told newsmen, to dispel rumors that he had been having an affair with Fanne Foxe. The trip had exactly the opposite result, and saddened and dismayed House members declared that Mills...
...Committee last week. Not in person, of course. Their surrogate was J. Richardson Dilworth, 58, the family's urbane, understated senior financial adviser. Responding to demands of committee Democrats that he reveal the Rockefellers' total stock holdings, Dilworth used five charts crammed with statistics to try to dispel the notion that the family exercises inordinate behind-the-scenes power. Not only could Rocky's critics not dispute Dilworth's bewildering rush of figures, at times they could hardly keep up with them. "There is no grand design or overall pattern," Dilworth assured the committee. "The family...
...amid Turkish objections and dire threats of still another assassination attempt against him by the EOKA-B Greek Cypriot underground, the terrorist group that favors enosis, or union with Greece. Declaring that he was holding out "not just an olive branch but a whole olive tree," Makarios tried to dispel fears that his return could lead to more trouble for the war-ravaged island...
Schumann-Heink or Frank Sinatra. Alsop, 64, was quick to dispel any such notion. Said Joe: "I'm engaged in writing a kind of summing-up series of columns, trying to compress 40-odd years in a few thousand words before I get the hell out." "Personally, I like sex, and I don't care what a man thinks of me as long as I get what I want from him -which is usually sex." Actress Valerie Perrine's candor, revealed in an interview with New York Times Reporter Judy Klemesrud, may not attract many serious suitors...
...Ford flew on. It was that the President, just like Nixon, was finding international junketeering far more pleasurable than the grind in the Oval Office. Perhaps he was beginning to succumb to the illusion that he could outrace domestic difficulties and bring home enough of the foreign huzzahsto dispel the leadership malaise...