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...grilled, too, about a matter that smacks more directly of questionable political tactics. In 1970 his brother Laurance put up $60,000 to produce a critical biography of former Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg, who was running against Rocky for Governor at the time. It was written by Political Hatchet Man Victor Lasky, who had previously collected and pasted together every anti-Kennedy rumor he could find in his 1963 book, JFK: The Man and The Myth...
Solzhenitsyn's charge will doubtless prove embarrassing to the leaders in the Kremlin, where the 69-year-old Sholokhov reigns as a court novelist and hatchet man for cultural hardliners. In recent years, Sholokhov has frequently denounced liberal writers; in 1969 he characterized Solzhenitsyn as a "Colorado beetle" who deserved extermination as a noxious plant pest...
...Hatchet Man. Indeed, Colson's entire career has been marked by the kind of unrelenting ambition that led him to become the White House hatchet man. As a teen-ager in Boston, he defiantly rejected a full scholarship at Harvard as he thought it too radical a university and because officials there told him, "No one has ever turned down a full scholarship at Harvard." He went to Brown instead. A man in a hurry, he became, at 22, the youngest company commander in the Marines. He married young and had three children (that marriage ended in divorce...
...writer may indulge in mythological and literary allusions or publish candid profiles of personalities. Otten noted that no other newspaper would call presidential advisor Charles Colson a "hatchet man" months before his reputation blossomed during the summer Senate hearings. He also mentioned a profile piece on a Congressman that called the representative a "hack...
...remarkable thing about this whole protest is that the students did not make the administration take a stand. Hardly had Dr. Robert H. Ebert, dean of the Med faculty, threatened to award "incompletes" to all those who numbered finals, than the students buried the hatchet...