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Boyd led the others in an audacious rummage through Dodd's files that be gan last June. They spirited out some 4,000 items, photocopied them, returned the originals. The copies went to Columnists Drew Pearson and Jack Anderson and formed the basis of articles charging Dodd with a variety of offenses, notably trading political favors for payola. Denying all, Dodd demanded that the ethics committee investigate. It reluctantly consented (TIME...
...great integrity and common sense," Ronald Reagan last week braved Washington's skeptical scrutiny. Most of his fellow Republicans, though impressed by the actor's runaway victory in California's G.O.P. gubernatorial primary (TIME, June 17), were either unaware or dubious of Rea gan's move toward the center since he supported Goldwater in 1964. In a candid, eloquent speech before the National Press Club, the newcomer left no doubt of his present views...
...priced issues (below $20) last week reached an all-time high of 130.71, up 10% since the last week of 1965. Even high-priced stocks have continued to rise in a number of high-flying groups, notably electronics and airlines. Since Feb. 9, when the Dow-Jones decline be gan, Collins Radio has moved from 48 to 71, Pan Am from 57 to 60, Gulf & Western from 97 to 106 and Texas Instruments from 200 to 210. On the bearish side, there have been sharp drops in several groups, including aircraft manufacturing, life insurance, oil and utilities...
...Johnson shifted targets and be gan sketching the kaleidoscopic vitality of the city's street life. Employing a splattery "action painting" technique, he captured the darkly contoured busts of the derelicts who flopped out on the Bowery. He dignified Everyman, even in despair. Said he: "I wanted to prove that man is more than a man - to put him on a pedestal. The human and the monumental are contradictory, but I wanted to put them together...
...sounds of oncoming day filled Saigon's Nguyen Cu Trinh Street. Across from the eight-story Metropole Hotel, the third largest American en listed men's billet in the city, buses be gan lining up for the day's run to the beaches of Vung Tau. The sputter of three-wheeled cyclo-pousse taxis occasionally disturbed the gloomy quiet. An American MP, automatic shotgun cradled in the crook of his arm, and a white-uniformed Vietnamese national policeman neared the end of their guard duty outside the Metropole. Inside, 160 American servicemen lay sleeping...