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...department's files state that Segretti, a 31-year-old registered Democrat and a former Treasury Department lawyer, was hired in September 1971 by Dwight Chapin, a deputy assistant to the President, and Gordon Strachan, a staff assistant at the White House. Chapin is the President's most trusted aide-de-camp and acts as a liaison between Nixon and his giant staff. For his services, Segretti was paid by Herbert Kalmbach, Nixon's personal attorney who has handled such matters as the acquisition of Nixon's estate at San Clemente, Calif. Segretti's recompense...
...Harding, became a textbook case in every hamlet in America. The deepfreezes and minks of Harry Truman's day caused his popularity to plummet to bedrock. And when Bernard Goldfine's rug was found in the living room of Sherman Adams, the White House Iron Man of Dwight Eisenhower's Administration, the national outcry reached such a pitch that Ad ams resigned in something like disgrace...
...have been astonishingly accurate in predicting presidential elections ever since the miscalculations of the Harry Truman upset of Thomas Dewey in 1948. Since that time, however, the largest discrepancy between the final Gallup reading, for example, and a presidential-election result was the 4.4 points by which Gallup underestimated Dwight Eisenhower's voter popularity in 1952. After that, Gallup's biggest miss was the mere 2.7 points by which he overestimated Lyndon Johnson's 1964 edge over Barry Goldwater. The average Gallup error in a presidential election since 1948 has been only 2.04 points on the winner...
...fire that started in a back-room trash barrel raced through the building, which in its Hotel Astoria days had served as General Dwight Eisenhower's headquarters, gutting it in a matter of minutes. The fire was the most spectacular that Paris had seen in years, and one of the most costly, with damages estimated at $20 million. The towering flames were visible as far away as Montmartre and Montparnasse. Six employees managed to escape from the burning building, one by jumping into the arms of onlookers. A Drugstore accountant was not so lucky. Firemen found her charred body...
...Dwight Bolinger professor of Romance Languages and coordinator of language instruction, said yesterday that the new program was especially important for graduate students in languages whose specialities often he outside of the teaching of the basic language classes. Bolinger's department used its $2,500 grant for an orientation program of outside speakers and demonstration teaching...