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...fortnight ago Nixon phoned Ford. Nixon said that he was sorry for all the trouble the pardon had caused. Then he offered to send the pardon back if it would help. No, said Ford, he did not want that. He told the ex-President to stand firm. It would blow over. Ford told Nixon that he thought his decision was the right one. He still feels that...
Land Deals. The opposition first surfaced a fortnight ago in the shattered former imperial capital of Hue, where 5,000 civilians gathered in front of the city's Roman Catholic cathedral to protest government corruption. The complaint was familiar enough, but the specifics were startlingly new. In a document that quickly circulated throughout the country, priests charged that Thieu had profited handsomely from housing and land deals, that his wife Nguyen Thi Mai had taken a rake-off from running a hospital that admits mostly well-to-do patients, and that his brother-in-law Nguyen Xuan Nguyen...
During the summer and fall of 1972, most of the top political reporters were concentrating on the presidential campaign. The biggest headlines were being made by George McGovern's deteriorating position. For one memorable fortnight the country's investigative journalism focused on Senator Thomas Eagleton and his psychiatric history. Political reporters did not know quite what to make of the Watergate business and had relatively little curiosity about it because it was not catching on as a campaign issue. The networks did little original reporting. Reuven Frank, then president of NBC News, says that television at that stage served...
...purge of the left has been accelerated, sometimes violently. Two weeks ago, a leader of the bus drivers' union regarded as being too far left was murdered, apparently by right-wing members of the labor movement. One of his colleagues from the same union was killed a fortnight before that. A third leader of the same union was kidnaped on Nov. 1 and released a day later after being tortured...
...general cult figure, his output of finished structures was quite small. But his final years were full of projects, the last of which is the Brown Wing of Houston's Museum of Fine Arts, which officially opens next January. Completed after his death, it was previewed last fortnight by a black-tie party of more than a thousand Texans. It is the fourth museum building by a leading international architect to rise in Texas in the past year (the other three are Louis Kahn's barrel-vaulted Kimbell Museum in Fort Worth [TIME, Jan. 15], Philip Johnson...