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...claim that he was only trying to keep the FBI out of national security matters is "untrue." Indeed, it is obvious that what he sought to stop was the FBI's tracing of money found on the Watergate burglars back to his political committee. Nixon concedes: "It was a grievous mistake to have gotten the CIA involved in this thing...
...even more grievous loss is John Singleton Copley, perhaps the greatest painter this country has yet produced. Still only 38, he is just now reaching the peak of his powers. There is scarcely an eminent person in Boston who has not sat for him, and his portrait of Silversmith Paul Revere is masterly. (He has also portrayed many non-Bostonian notables like Thomas Mifflin, who was recently made a brigadier general in the Continental Army.) But it was his fortune, or misfortune, to marry the daughter of Boston's most successful dealer in tea, Richard Clarke...
Reagan's strength in that search was strikingly demonstrated last Saturday in Springfield, Mo., when he inflicted yet another grievous wound on President Ford's hopes for the nomination. In a humiliating rout, with both real and psychological impact, Reagan won 18 of Missouri's 19 at-large delegates. When added to the Missouri delegates already won by Reagan, the 18-1 victory gave him control of the 49-member Missouri delegation, with 30 votes to Ford's 16 (and three uncommitted). The only Ford delegate to survive Reagan's weekend charge was Governor Christopher S. Bond, who himself suffered...
...signed in favor of the British Royal Niger Company. As he returned there was a brief skirmish. Lugard reported with the stiffest possible upper lip: "The only casualty in the fighting line was myself, an arrow having penetrated deep into my skull." When he got home, he sustained another grievous wound: the signatures on the treaties were fake...
...business in America has been hurt in past months by recession and inflation, but no wound has been more grievous than the revelations that it has used its money to influence public officials at home and abroad. One scandal has surfaced after another with deplorable regularity, as major corporations have been found making illegal political contributions and payoffs. The predictable results are a serious erosion of public confidence in, and a sharpening cynicism about, the motives of businessmen. To make matters even worse, the penalties imposed on guilty companies have been almost ridiculous-fines so small that they do little...