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Vantage Point. Political handyman for three Presidents, Clifford has liked it that way since he left the White House in 1950 after mapping Harry Truman's 1948 "Give 'em Hell" campaign. His only major official tie to Government is the unpaid chairmanship of the Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, which oversees all espionage operations. Yet from this unobtrusive vantage point, Clifford is counted one of the five most powerful men in Washington next to the President. With McNamara, Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas and Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare John Gardner, he formed...
...author's gentle and poetic little 1962 novel The Lilies of the Field went almost unnoticed as a book, but made it fairly big as a motion picture. Actor Sidney Poitier won an Oscar portraying Homer Smith, the book's footloose handyman hero, who used ingenuity, faith and adobe bricks to build a Catholic chapel for a penniless order of German-speaking nuns. In this sequel, Homer works another miracle when, pressed into service as an evangelist at an old-fashioned hallelujah tent meeting, he inspires a crippled girl to walk. Although his tale is almost too short...
...Fixer is a semi-historical account of the life of a Jewish handyman in Russia who was falsely accused of ritual murder...
...been changed since it was built sometime after 1890. Said Hospital Superintendent Charles Gaughan: "We're holding murderers here in a hen coop." Sentenced in January to life plus ten years for armed robbery and sex crimes resulting from assaults on four women, DeSalvo, a former handyman, was never legally identified as the Strangler, but the minute details of his confession-which, by prior agreement with his attorney, could not be used as evidence-left little doubt that he was indeed the man who had murdered and, in several cases, savagely mutilated 13 women in 18 months between...
...wasn't the only one. National attention is focused on the small Cambridge courthouse where Bailey--attorney for Sam Sheppard and Carl Coppolino in sensational trials last year--intends to plead insanity for the 35-year old local handyman--named as the Boston Strangler in a best-selling book by Gerald Frank...