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...York Times would be required to say who passed him the Pentagon Papers. The same for columnist Jack Anderson and his ITT scoop. Or more recently, The Times would be compelled to name before a grand jury every source--many of whom would be incriminated--for its series detailing graft in the New York City construction business totalling over $25 million annually. The City of New York either could not, or did not bother to, uncover the scandal. The Times did. But had those men who supplied The Times its information known they would have no protection before a grand...
...first announcement came from the Hospital of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, where doctors used acupuncture to anesthetize William Rosner, 65, who was undergoing a skin graft. According to Dr. Louis Orkin, chairman of the department of anesthesiology, needles were placed in the inner corners of Rosner's eyes, his left hand and leg. The sites were selected by following Chinese acupuncture texts...
...housing programs in ghetto areas of large cities. He blamed "speculators and fast-buck artists" but accepted some of the blame himself for the failure of the FHA, which his department supervises, to combat them. Said he: "I am angered and determined to eliminate incompetence, conflict of interest, favoritism, graft, bribes, fraud, shoddy workmanship and profiteering...
...highway construction funds: "Pretty soon there won't be a poor farm in America without a paved road leading to it." In his parody of Coolidge's State of the Union Message, Rogers had Coolidge say. "I'm going to appoint a committee to stop all that small graft. It's grown to such proportions that it's getting in the way of large graft...
Crutches and Wheelchairs. The results were in sharp contrast to Marcos' overwhelming victories in 1965 and 1969. The opposition Liberals charged the administration with graft and corruption, failure to control rising living costs, and a double standard of justice for rich and poor. They also accused the President of intending to circumvent the constitutional limit of two terms by running his lovely wife Imelda for President in 1973. Marcos seemed to confirm as much when he said recently that his wife might have to run "to prevent a Communist tool from becoming President...