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...Senator Sam Ervin's Watergate committee, as it requested last week-for the third time. Ziegler indicated that the President may be planning to defy the House Judiciary Committee in its impeachment inquiry by not voluntarily turning over White House documents. The press secretary also applied a new gag on White House officials who have been willing to talk candidly, but anonymously, to reporters. All contacts with the press, he ordered, must be reported...
...only partially eased by the White House decision to hold three briefing sessions starting on Friday, Dec. 7, about 24 hours before the official release of the information. Presidential advisers, using charts and pointers to explain Nixon's labyrinth in cash flow and purchases, unloaded enough figures to gag a roomful of accountants. Editors for the most part followed suit, publishing an overwhelming array of disparate stories and arcane tables. The Milwaukee Journal and Miami Herald, for example, presented a kaleidoscope of summaries, texts, wire-service rundowns and assorted sidebars. The New York Times devoted 31 columns...
...freedom of the Press, a Washington-based group that offers legal aid to endangered colleagues, said last week that the high court's refusal to hear the case "means that any judge can order a newspaper not to publish any news items, and the newspaper must obey that gag for as long as it takes to appeal. By that time the item may no longer be newsworthy." The dispute's background bears out that bleak interpretation. In 1971 Federal District Judge E. Gordon West ordered journalists covering the public hearing of a conspiracy case against a local civil...
Instead he was shuffled off to the frosty reaches of Buffalo where, as the old vaudeville gag put it, the seasons consist of the Fourth of July and winter...
Millions of radio addicts have been "feeling" Wolfman Jack's palpable patter for many years and have made him perhaps the nation's most listened-to disk jockey. He puts together an attractive package of rock, rhythm and blues, gag tunes and whatever else grabs his fancy. His specialty is zany mike antics and having telephone conversations with listeners. He grunts, growls, thumps, sings along with a record. By modulating his voice to low, suggestive intimacy, he squeezes juice from anemic wisecracks. As he plays the Rolling Stones' (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction, he confides...