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Government agents daily carry off sensitive material from the Secretary's Georgetown jetsam before it reaches the curb. The State Department, however, announced that Nancy was "anguished" and the Secretary "really revolted." The home-town Washington Post decried Gourley's trash-can investigation as "indefensible-both as journalistic-practice and as civilized behavior." Later in the week a Palm Beach, Fla., Post reporter pawed through garbage bins at the National Enquirer's headquarters in nearby Lantana and came up with a revealing two-year-old memo from Publisher Generoso Pope Jr. exhorting his troops: "Prod, push...
...much of Jackson's political career, three men have helped shape his political views and still act as a frequently consulted, yet sometimes critical, home-town kitchen cabinet. They...
Cheers exploded throughout the arena in Bloomington, Ind., as though the home-town team, ranked first in the country, had just won the national championship. Then nearly a third of the 17,528 spectators headed for the city's two McDonald's hamburger emporiums, which got no break that...
...called the move "an affront to the principle of equal justice under law, the very foundation of our legal system." NBC News Anchor Man John Chancellor said that he thought terHorst "did exactly the right thing" in resigning over the pardon. Even the Grand Rapids Press, Ford's home-town paper, asked: "How can President Ford clear himself with the public after telling Congress, during his vice-presidential nomination hearing, that a President would have the power to pardon his predecessor, 'but the people wouldn't stand...
Extra Space. A short (5 ft. 7½ in.), pipe-smoking Michigander of Dutch extraction, terHorst was taken off the city hall beat at his home-town Grand Rapids Press to cover Ford's first congressional campaign in 1948. The paper had endorsed Ford against the incumbent, and terHorst's assignment, as he tells it, was "being sure that the Ford story was well covered." Ford won by a 2-to-l margin, and the President now amiably refers to terHorst as a man who "connived to get me a little extra space in the Grand Rapids Press...