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...chastened Spiro Agnew set out last week to project the image of philosopher-statesman. With ego-altering assistance from Stephen Hess, a polished speechwriter assigned to him from Nixon headquarters, the Republican vice-presidential nominee sounded restrained, deliberate and at times downright dull. His press conferences, noted one aide, "are guaranteed not to make news...
...John P. Hess, adjutant of Harvard's Army ROTC unit, said that this decision is "apparently in the spirit of the new draft ruling...
...soon crum ble, he greeted the victorious invading Americans with a proposal: his secrets in return for U.S. financial backing. The U.S. accepted and installed Gehlen and his wartime staff in a heavily guarded compound near Munich that had formerly served as headquarters of Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess. There, behind double rows of concrete walls and steel fences, Gehlen plotted some of the crucial undercover moves of the cold war. He recruited agents throughout Eastern Europe, even had a minister in the East German government in his employ, smashed a Czech-run spy ring in West Germany...
...only had he become too busy to write, he said, but so had the "three marvelous people" who had been helping him with the column: "Stephen Shadegg, who has turned into a successful author; Tony Smith, who was on my staff for many years; and my old standby Karl Hess, who is now turning more of his time and talent into becoming a sculptor...
That odd bit of sculpture in the corner-does it look sort of like a mashed motorcycle? Could be, if it's the work of Washington's newest artistic giant, Karl Hess, 44. Only three years ago, Hess was expressing himself in a different medium as Barry Goldwater's chief speechwriter. After the campaign, though, he fell into such malodor that he could not land a job even as a Capitol Hill elevator operator. He took up motorcycle racing as a diversion, then began studying welding so that he could repair his own wrecked bikes. Sculpture being...