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...Evan-Picone, the sportswear firm in which he had an interest, was sold. Following such legendary predecessors as Adolph Zukor (furs) and Samuel Goldwyn (gloves), Bob took his share of garment-district profits to reconquer Hollywood as a producer. His aggressive entrance into the packaging market attracted the eye of Charles Bluhdorn, who had just acquired Paramount. He hired Evans and has protected his position ever since. Evans is dead serious about Paramount. "Running a major studio is more difficult than running a country," he says without a trace of irony. "A small country...
...handled much of the tapes controversy in the Sirica hearings, and James St. Clair, 53, the Boston trial lawyer who became the President's new chief counsel for all of his Watergate defense on Jan. 1. Far less defensive than his soft-spoken predecessors, Buzhardt and Leonard Garment, the poised, silver-haired St. Clair sharply challenged any effort by Ben-Veniste to get the experts to draw conclusions going beyond their carefully stated report...
...Nationality Act of 1965, has grown by about 350 people each year. This influx has exacerbated the already overcrowded conditions in Chinatown. The new immigrants face many language and cultural difficulties. Their lack of proficiency in English forces both the skilled and unskilled to work in restaurants and garment factories, two traditional sources of employment for Chinese. They then have to work long hours (the restaurant worker labors about 11 hours a day, six days a week) and can find little opportunity on the job to learn English and acquire skills necessary for less wearying and higher paying jobs...
...handle the latest stage of his Watergate defense, Nixon hired yet another attorney: Republican James D. St. Clair, 53, a meticulous and highly respected trial lawyer from Boston. He will take over from J. Fred Buzhardt and Leonard Garment. Buzhardt was named to John W. Dean's old job of White House counsel, in which he will handle the President's routine legal work. Garment was appointed a presidential assistant in the areas of civil rights and the arts. For months, Nixon had been unhappy with his defense team's work; White House aides went...
...their dead daughter. But they sense danger, too. They tell Baxter that his life is in peril while he remains in Venice. He does not believe them, but he is bothered by strange presentiments, and by the persistent reappearance of a small figure in a hooded red raincoat-the garment his daughter was wearing when she drowned...