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After he heard his sentence read from the bench last week by U.S. District Judge Gerhard Gesell, John Ehrlichman momentarily lost his usual steely grip on himself. Standing glumly erect as he listened to the judge's words, Emiichman returned silently to the witness table when Gesell finished, reached out to steady himself on the back of his chair, then slowly sank down into his seat. Gesell had just sentenced the former White House domestic adviser to three concurrent prison terms of 20 months to five years each-for one count of conspiracy in authorizing the burglary...
Spain has long held a firm grip on man's imagination. It is the land of mystery, a Gothic tapestry sewn together from strands of brutal sunshine and lustful blood, of tart wine and even tarter women. It is the secret of thunderous clouds menacing El Greco's Toledo; the acrid fire consuming the bodies of heretics during the Inquisition; the melancholy strains of a guitar played after a day's labor in the fields; the gnarled branches of the olive trees that cluster throughout the sun-beaten hills. It is the legend of the independence of the leather-skinned...
...Justice Fred Vinson died. President Eisenhower was under pressure to name a successor before the court convened in October. As Associate Justice William O. Douglas tells it, Vice President Nixon and Senator William Knowland went to Ike and urged him to choose Warren as a means of breaking his grip on California politics. In any case, Warren met basic requirements. He was a Republican and his philosophy and common sense "pleased" Eisenhower. Later, dismayed that Warren turned out to be a controversial participant rather than a bland umpire, Ike described the selection as "the biggest damn fool mistake I ever...
While two generations of Presidents have been concentrating power in the White House, Congress has been relaxing its grip, sometimes to the point of irresponsibility. Says former Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus...
...Among them: former Foreign Minister Michel Jobert and ex-Finance Minister and Common Market Commission President François-Xavier Ortoli, both class of '48. Below the Cabinet level, the school's 2,600 graduates hold many of the key jobs in the French bureaucracy, and their grip on the system is growing...