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...four-day Chocolate Binge Weekend, attended by 150 chocophiles last February at Mohonk Mountain House in New Paltz, N.Y. ($183), featured chocolate treats ad nauseam, as well as counsel by Philadelphia Psychiatrist Roy Fitzgerald and his wife, Anthropologist Jennie Keith (sample subject: Does one eat chocolate before or after...
...issue that led to the decision surfaced in 1968, when Air Force Budget Analyst A. Ernest Fitzgerald told Congress that development costs of the $3.4 billion C-5A transport plane were over budget by $2 billion. In 1970, as the result of what the Air Force described as a reorganization, the Pentagon let Fitzgerald go. The Civil Service Commission found the dismissal improper, and ordered that he be re-employed with back pay. Fitzgerald protested that his new cost analyst job was not equivalent to the old one. In a $3.5 million suit, Fitzgerald charged that Nixon had conspired...
...part, Fitzgerald declared that he was "obviously not" pleased. Said he: "It ought to frighten anyone who loves liberty." Though disappointed, Fitzgerald will not come off completely emptyhanded. In 1980, in exchange for Fitzgerald's pledge not to take the case to trial even if he prevailed on appeal, Nixon agreed to pay him $142,000. In addition, the former President promised another $28,000 if Fitzgerald won in the Supreme Court. Two weeks ago, Fitzgerald settled a separate suit against the Federal Government under terms guaranteeing him his former position and $200,000 for legal fees...
While the court was granting absolute immunity to Presidents, it refused to do the same for their aides. Fitzgerald had sued two of Nixon's assistants, Bryce Harlow and Alexander Butterfield, over his job problems. Last week the Justices ruled, 8 to 1, that the aides, like Cabinet officers, enjoy only "qualified" immunity. An official, said the court, would be liable to a suit if he could be expected to know he was violating the law. While technically a defeat for the two Nixon aides, the ruling was in a large sense a victory because the court dropped...
...business and glamour grew proportionately, the residences of its stars became more lavish too. There was the Hollywood Hotel, where Rudolph Valentino married Actress Jean Acker and spent his honeymoon. The Garden of Allah, which opened with an 18-hour party, was a haven for writers including F. Scott Fitzgerald, Robert Benchley and Dorothy Parker...