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...tough-minded novelist and correspondent, the gravel-throated Rudd is a 14-year veteran of the CBS News Service. Quinn, 32, was hired (at a reported $75,000 per year) from the style section of the Washington Post, where she was known for aggressive reporting and a caustic wit. ("Poison Quinn," Norman Mailer dubbed...
...when the university set out to recruit more able young professors a few years ago, he was chosen to be chairman of a faculty search group that was informally called "The Committee to Keep Harvard from Going to Hell." His nickname on campus is "Tiger," and with his gravel voice and fondness for four-letter words, he can and does talk tough to both labor and management. Having spent many of his 58 years studying unions, he knows as much as anyone in the nation about the fractious construction industry...
Nevertheless, the result is not likely to benefit the prosecution in the Ellsberg Case: Gravel, through his lawyers, has already told the courts that he did not obtain his copies of the Papers from Ellsberg. And if for no other reason said attorney Harvey Silverglade, the government is "barking up the wrong tree...
Later in the week, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to reconsider an argument that Senator Mike Gravel (D-Alaska) and his aide Leonard S. Rodberg are immune from outside inquiry by the same grand jury, thus renewing the possibility that they may also be resubpoenaed to testify...
...Gravel, the Supreme Court decision was the end of a long road of legal benefit he had been traveling for over a year...