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...suffering southpaws [Jan. 7], will find comfort in an astonishing fact that I noted while working on a book about the Apollo moon-landing program. Of the 29 astronauts who flew the Apollo missions, no fewer than seven are lefthanded: Walter Schirra, Donn Eisele, James Lovell, Michael Collins, Richard Gordon. Edgar Mitchell and Charles Duke...
Porter told the Senate Watergate committee last June that he lied to the FBI, the grand jury and the Watergate trial jury about money he gave to G. Gordon Liddy...
...neighbors have faced it alone, and I'm one Canadian who is damned tired of hearing them kicked around," growled Canadian Gadfly Gordon Sinclair, 73, a Toronto TV and radio personality who broadcast those sentiments over Canadian radio last June in an editorial entitled "Americans." The response was so enthusiastic from U.S. listeners who were tuned in that Sinclair made a record of the editorial, with the strains of the Battle Hymn of the Republic in the background. Another Canadian, a news director named Byron MacGregor, 25, was so stirred by Sinclair's encomium that he too made...
...first run, captain Ben Steele carved deep ruts through the snow so Cid could follow like a bobsled. The second run was more awesome than the first and although freshman Eric Jewett tried to dethrone the mythical figure he managed only second, while sophomore Gordon Adler was properly respectful in third. El Cid, hardly a living legend, took the Beebe Trophy by a comfortable margin...
...four Cuban Americans arrested at the Watergate pleaded guilty four days later. If anyone else was involved, Sirica added, "I want to know it and the grand jury wants to know it." The four insisted that the conspiracy stopped at the low levels of their arrested leaders: Hunt; G. Gordon Liddy, another former White House consultant and counsel for Nixon's 1972 re-election finance committee; and James W. McCord Jr., a former CIA electronic-eavesdropping expert and security chief for Nixon's re-election committee. Where did they get the money to carry out their operation? They...