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DIED. Edward Griffith Begle, 63, mathematics professor at Yale and Stanford who was a chief proponent of the "new math"; of emphysema; in Palo Alto, Calif. As head of the School Mathematics Study Group, an organization with nearly $10 million in Government grants, Begle emphasized the theoretical principles of the number system in addition to rote calculation learned in traditional math...
...begun to train its own arson investigators. With the aid of the federal Law Enforcement Assistance Administration, insurance companies and city officials plan to create arson information banks to help apprehend torches. Unfortunately, catching arsonists requires enterprising detective work-and luck. The U.S. Attorney for western Pennsylvania, Blair Griffith, for example, has won 20 arson convictions based on the federal crime of mail fraud. Griffith relied on an arsonist turned informant: Merrill H. Klein, 53, a self-styled "business consultant" who worked as a "broker" for landlords eager to torch their property. After pleading guilty in 1974 to helping burn...
...reigning Bruins, for their part, return a solid group from last season's 7-C Ivy squad. Coach Cliff Stevenson lost top pro draft choices forward Fred Per eira and Mark Griffith, and goalie Dave Flaschen, but when you have one of the top teams in the country...
Just about then a fictional replay of the Nixon tragedy-Washington: Behind Closed Doors- was holding 50 million Americans in front of their TV screens. The best line of the day came out of this electronic novel. Andy Griffith, playing a retiring President patterned on Lyndon Johnson, cast a wise eye on Jason Robards, the fictional Nixon, and advised, "It's plenty hard to lose the affection and trust of those people. But let me tell you something, lose it once by God you never get it back...
...fiction. The basic source is John Ehrlichman's roman à clef, The Company, and all the famous names have been changed to protect the guilty. Even so, it is not hard to identify such major characters as President Richard Monckton (Jason Robards), ex-President Esker Scott Anderson (Andy Griffith), CIA Chief William Martin (Cliff Robertson) or National Security Council Head Carl Tessler (Harold Gould). Lesser Watergate lights-from Hugh Sloan to Howard Hunt-should be recognizable to anyone who has seen All the President...