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...difficulties of making Bill Rogers come across to the public is that it generally sees him at his worst. Put a battery of microphones and television cameras in front of him and this easygoing man will tighten up and become self-conscious." Instead, the Bill Rogers whom Diplomatic Correspondent Herman Nickel usually sees is a pleasant, relaxed man who enjoys talking, and just as important, listening to the newsmen who cover the State Department...
...Concept. It will take months to untangle the finances of the nonrock festival. The promoters reportedly sold 30,000 tickets at $20 each. The ski-resort owners, Herman and Louis Zemel, broke with the promoters, a group of 15 men headed by Joseph Middleton of Atlanta and incorporated as Middleton Arts International. The Zemels accused the organizers of planning to provoke violence at the festival and then to profit by filming the disorder. The Zemels said they had some $60,000 of the ticket money put away in escrow...
...Bugaboo. Mrs. Mink, 42, turned in her fury to Humphrey, who, she assumed, had appointed Berman to the committee (actually, it was Fred Harris, former Democratic National Committee chairman). Demanding Herman's ouster, she called him a "bigot," guilty of "the basest sort of prejudice against women . . . His use of the menstrual cycle and menopause to ridicule women and to caricature all women as neurotic and emotionally unbalanced was as indefensible and astonishing as those who still believe, let alone dare state, that the Negro is physiologically inferior." Betty (The Feminine Mystique) Friedan, former president of the National Organization...
Representative Shirley Chisholm sent her own letter to Humphrey asking for the doctor's resignation. Journalist Gloria Steinem echoed the demand with a petition. Even Dr. Herman's wife got in on the act: when asked about his statements, she replied, "If he really said that, I would disagree with...
...leads after a five-year wait had "cleansed" them. Legal authorities claim that the proposed law is not really needed by prosecutors anyway; when they have justification for thinking that crime is going on, they can make most searches and tapes by obtaining warrants first. Says Herman Schwartz, a wiretap-law expert at the State University of New York at Buffalo: "The provision blows a hole in the entire fabric that the Supreme Court has woven to deter official lawlessness...