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There was similar disquiet among the trustees over the awarding of the 58th annual Pulitzer Prizes announced last week. The advisory board had recommended a prize in national reporting to the Providence Journal-Bulletin's Jack White, 31, who broke details of President Nixon's minuscule income tax payments in 1970 and 1971. Although his scoop was the first in a series of revelations about questionable presidential tax deductions, White's access to confidential returns was a stark violation of Internal Revenue Service regulations; White has refused to say how or where he secured the Nixon returns...
...that his returns rated a new and sharper scrutiny. In the fall of 1973, an IRS employee decided on his own that the public ought to know about the amazingly low taxes paid by the President and leaked the figures for 1970 and 1971 to the Providence Journal-Bulletin...
...safe across the hall from the office of the IRS Commissioner. But narrow information contained on two lines of all returns-taxes paid and refunds received-is stored in the central IRS computer in Martinsburg, W. Va. Any clerk could have leaked them to the Providence (R.I.) Journal-Bulletin, which broke the story. While not disputing the facts as printed, the White House replied that the President had followed "normal procedures" in filing his taxes. His returns had received a "complete audit" and were accepted without change...
...glowing record on the Senate Education Committee, and both Muskie and Kennedy testified to his worth. Chafee maintained that as both a former state representative and governor he intimately knew the problems of the state, and thus would be tremendously effective in the Senate. The Republican-leaning Providence Journal-Bulletin, Rhode Island's largest paper, endorsed Chafee based on this issue. But the issue of effectiveness wasn't enough for Chafee, and as the subjects of busing and defense cut-backs faded to did Chafee's strength, and the last pre-election poll showed him trailing Pell by two percentage...
...last week it was proving far from providential. The electronic canceling machine turned out to have a promiscuous eye, happily approved any spot of color where the stamp should be, including Christmas seals and trading stamps, on test mail sent by the Providence Journal-Bulletin. All were delivered. (But when the paper tried it again, spotters, tipped off, caught the letters.) Letters that once took a day to reach nearby Boston from Providence took two days after the machines took over. Though the Post Office expected automation to cut down on the work force, it needed its usual...