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...foolhardy enough to make speeches is fair game for the press. CIA Director Richard Helms learned that the hard way when he tried to speak off the record to the Business Council at the Homestead Inn in Hot Springs, Va. Arguing that anything Helms had to say to 125 of the nation's top business executives could hardly endanger national security, reporters pleaded with the CIA chief for at least a briefing. They even carried their complaints to the Administration's communications director, Herb Klein, in Washington. Helms turned Klein down...
...rebuff sent most reporters off to gripe among themselves in the Homestead's bars. But not U.P.I.'s James Srodes, 29, a former Atlanta Journal political reporter. Trying not to be noticed, the 6-ft. 5-in., 280-lb. reporter poked about for ways to eavesdrop on the superspy-and stumbled into his story. Wandering into the kitchen, Srodes was amazed to discover Helms' speech being amplified through a kitchen intercom so that the help would know when to clear tables without disturbing speakers. In his talk, Helms described Ho Chi Minh as "an utterly cold-blooded...
...player to emerge in years. At age 12 he was considered the prize of the Canadian little leagues, and was already being wooed by Montreal. The Bruins moved in by subsidizing all minor-league play in Orr's home town of Parry Sound, Ont.-and refurbishing the Orr homestead to boot. By the time he was 18, Bobby was in the Boston training camp with a two-year contract for $65,000 in his pocket. His teammates initiated him by shaving his body from head to foot, "Better that he got it from us first," growled one Bruin, "because...
...that size you have a civilized community, one without a commuter problem and still small enough that you can fight city hall," he says. In Manhattan last week, the newly formed Committee for National Land Development Policy, a group of builders, bankers and sociologists, called for "an industrial homestead act," under which the Federal Government would provide free land to newtown developers, just as it once gave land to farmers and railroads...
...United States, who in 1781, as a 35-year-old emissary to Spain, hatched the kidnaping scheme in a letter to a friend in France. Jay's daring plan remained virtually unknown for nearly two centuries until the letter was placed on exhibit at the John Jay Homestead in Katonah...