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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Skow approached Baker at his Nantucket Island retreat, where he found the columnist on his knees, plucking crab grass from a walk, and looking every bit the compulsive suburbanite sometimes mirrored in his column. Skow spent two days with the Baker family. He toured the island, shared the view from a widow's walk atop the house, and discovered that his 17-year impression of Baker was correct. Reports Skow: "He is not a performer. He is a man who lives very much inside his own head, a thoughtful conversationalist who would just as soon listen as talk...
...field between the crowded highway and O'Hare International Airport. Half an hour later, the field was shrouded in black smoke, and firemen held hoses on a flaming aircraft engine. Police and other emergency workers stepped gingerly through scattered and smoldering wreckage, looking for signs of life. They found none...
...Carter as Governor of Georgia, took over the National Bank of Georgia and followed Carter to Washington as the President's Budget Director and closest confidant. But last week, a year and a half after being forced to resign his office because of his questionable financial deals, he found himself in the basement of the federal courthouse in Atlanta, holding up a number for a mug shot and waiting to be fingerprinted...
...guilty to all charges and called them "totally ridiculous." As reporters tumbled out of the courthouse onto the street, Lance told them: "Y'all be careful. I don't want any of you to get run over. I want this same crowd around when I'm found innocent." Co-Defendant Mitchell claimed the indictment was an act of Yankee malice. Said he: "The War Between the States? They said it was over 100 years ago." Mullins, a former druggist in Calhoun, sounded equally aggrieved: "Apparently, my only crime was being a friend of Bert Lance...
...demonstrations were in response to a U.S. Senate resolution deploring Iran's "summary executions" and the pronouncement by an Iranian religious judge that the Shah should be assassinated "in any country where found." The crowds in Tehran were particularly vociferous in attacking New York's Republican Senator Jacob Javits, who introduced the resolution, and his wife Marion, who helped obtain the Iran Air account for a New York public relations firm...