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...money." Nixon received campaign pledges totaling $2 million from the dairy industry and raised price supports 270 per cwt. But Connally was acquitted of the charge. When the inevitable question aris es, Connally retorts: "I'm the only certified not-guilty candidate running in either party. The jury heard the evidence and said, 'not guilty.' What more do you want...
...soon as Vance heard the news, he rebelled and threatened to resign. That set off a back-room tempest in the Administration. The principals, Vance, Strauss, Jordan and Vice President Walter Mondale gathered that night, at the end of March, in Mondale's living room. Vance insisted that he had already yielded too much to Brzezinski in the past couple of years, as Vance put it, to protect Brzezinski against his own large insecurities. "It's not personal, it's institutional," maintained the Secretary. "It will be a terrible blow for the State Department." Mondale tried...
...decide whether IBM had monopolized various markets claimed in Memorex's $900 million antitrust suit, jurors needed a detailed understanding of things like "reverse engineering," "cross elasticity of supply" and "subordinated debentures." The trial lasted 96 days. The jury heard 87 witnesses and examined some 3,000 exhibits. After deliberating for 19 more days, it could not reach a unanimous verdict. Federal Judge Samuel Conti declared a mistrial. He then ruled in favor of IBM, though the jury had favored Memorex by 9 to 2. Suspecting that the jurors were baffled by the whole case, Judge Conti began asking...
...list and learned that money from his project was being used to pay people who had not worked on it. Some he had never heard of, others were scientists assigned to other projects. In 1975 Cohen called on top financial officers at Harvard to audit all grants in his department, but says he got an "inadequate" response. Afterward, he was told he would not receive his hoped-for reappointment to the faculty (Harvard denies that Cohen's inquisitiveness was the reason...
...each weekday and an hour on Saturdays and Sundays (at 5 p.m. in most places), All Things Considered's bouillabaisse of hard news, light features and background reports is heard on 200 noncommercial stations. The show is the flagship program of National Public Radio, the aural counterpart of TV's Public Broadcasting Service. It is also the ear-throb of legions of listeners-2 million flip the dial to it at least one day a week, and some 150 send mash notes weekly...