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Dirty Money. After the liquor extortion scandals broke in 1972, Superintendent James Conlisk created a task force called C-5 to ferret out corruption...
With its course of action finally resolved, the administration moved this week to ferret out the 125 undergraduates. F. Skiddy von Stade '38, dean of freshmen, asked his charges to volunteer to live in freshman dormitories, "so that as few of you present freshmen as possible will have to be assigned to the Yard by some impersonal method...
...life to live up to its TV image. "The biggest problem criminal lawyers have," says California Attorney Floyd Silliman, "is what we call the Perry Mason syndrome -jurors preconditioned by TV. According to TV, lawyers are not only supposed to get their clients acquitted, they are also supposed to ferret out the guilty parties...
...principally from former White House Counsel John Dean, that the President was involved in a crime-the Watergate cover-up-but that he refused to give up the tapes and memoranda that might exonerate him. The committee insisted that the subpoena was well within its "mandate and responsibility to ferret out all the facts regarding the Watergate affair, both to aid the Senate in its legislative function and ... to inform the public." For good measure, the committee lawyers projected themselves as preservers of the entire republican system of government: "Once the President becomes so immune by privilege that he cannot...
...Manhattan. He then explained why the flattering introduction by A.P. Chairman Paul Miller gave him pause. It seems that in the early winter of 1968, President-elect Nixon and Kissinger had paid a visit to L.B.J. The larger-than-life Texan offered a bit of advice on how to ferret out the tattletales of state secrets. "If you want to find out where the leakage is," Johnson said, "listen to newsmen talking. Find out who it is they talk about as being 'bright,' 'intelligent,' 'profound'-and fire...