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Persistently, almost rhythmically, the prosecutor repeated the question. Soon, everyone in the courtroom, including the pained witness, could anticipate it. For some, the impulse to join in the refrain was difficult to resist. In his deceptively soft Tennessee drawl, Chief Prosecutor James Neal would ask: "Now, you wanted to get the truth out, Mr. Ehrlichman?" That has been Defendant John Ehrlichman's claim in the Watergate conspiracy trial. But with searing effect, Neal shredded that defense by repeatedly showing how much Ehrlichman had known about the cover-up and how little he had disclosed to investigators...
...native of Madison, Wis., Lamm speaks less with the measured drawl of the Westerner than with the rapid-fire delivery of the transplant. But zealous as he is on the environment, he is no extremist. "I am a politician of the finite," he says, and he fully expects to cooperate with Republicans, who are scarcely less alarmed about the future of their state than Democrats. "We're not saying 'no growth' or opting for a steady state economy," says Lamm. "But growth has to be controlled. What we're really demanding is that growth...
Blocking Back. In fact, Neal softens his bantam-rooster combativeness with an easy Tennessee drawl and a gentle farm-boy manner. Spectators at the cover-up trial will not see the showmanship of an F. Lee Bailey or the suave assurance of a James St. Clair. A former Marine captain and star blocking back at the University of Wyoming, Neal is not even especially eloquent. His strength is the sine qua non of all great trial lawyers: preparation. During the past months, he has often put in ten-hour days with a single Watergate wit ness, then worked on into...
...owned stations Interviews with John Kenneth Galbraith, Gloria Steinem, Halston, Robert Coles, Peter Benchley and Rudolf Nureyev. If successful, they could earn Lee her own talk show. For 2½ minutes on the evening news last week Lee, dressed with unrelenting chic and speaking in a throaty mid-Atlantic drawl, questioned Rudi about his life and work. The concept, explained a CBS spokesman, was to cover a single thought each time. The most provoking idea occurred to Lee in the fourth session. "Do you think you'll ever get married?" she asked a startled Rudi. Replied Rudi reprovingly...
...dark, carefully combed hair looking a bit sheepish for covering his ears, face full of a quiet pride and the air of hanging back a bit on the vocals in favor of his accomplished banjo--and his sons. One of them, who introduced the songs, has a pleasant Dylanesque drawl to his voice, and both of them can, as they say, play the flat flip out of a guitar. The audience got off most on the inevitable Foggy Mountain Breakdown, and on Friday they finally made the Revue come back twice to face those massed lights and hanging planters...