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Thanks for your piece on the woeful world of the freelance writer. It's comforting to find that someone knows we're out here, forever (God knows why) hunting and pecking for peanuts. Which leads me to my next point. I've got this great story idea...
...political career, Jimmy was so busy becoming something, so busy achieving political office that he never really had time to sit down and decide who he was and what he was politically. He was always forced to improvise as he went along. As a result, when we got to the White House, we didn't know what we wanted to do, what we wanted to be, what we wanted to sell. So we tried to do everything, be everything, sell everything...
...bureau officials believe that Gray may have trapped himself in the alleged conspiracy when he gave his deputy, Felt, sweeping authority to do something about the Weathermen, and then failed to keep a sharp eye on Felt and the zealous Miller. Says one ex-FBI man: "You've got to remember that in those days Gray spent only three days a week in headquarters. He was out on the road, touring FBI offices, making speeches. He was almost totally preoccupied with the Watergate scandal during the limited time he spent in FBI headquarters. When requests for approval...
Webster, of course, defends his choice of Adams. While he acknowledges his inexperience at the bureau, he says he knew what kind of director he did not want-"someone who says, 'We've got a right to do whatever we think is best for the country.' " Webster points out that he talked to many people before naming Adams. He consulted with Bell, Kelley, Congressmen and Senators, six FBI field commanders and the 15-man FBI executive conference. Of the latter group, however, two top-echelon bureau officials agree that "only a couple of those guys know what...
...Angeles. Says Daniel Rose, chairman of the housing committee of the Real Estate Board of New York, where vacancies in Manhattan are running only 1½% to 2%: "We've never had such pressure." Declares Kathleen Connell, director of housing for the city of Los Angeles: "It has got to the point where if there is a vacancy, owners aren't advertising. News of a vacancy is getting out by word of mouth, and by the next day there's a line of applicants...