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Such hell-for-leather legwork has become almost routine at the Herald, the strongest link in the Knight newspaper chain.* Pulitzer-prizewinning Reporter Gene Miller has the Herald's carte blanche to travel to big stories: the Attica prison insurrection, the Howard Johnson rooftop Shootout in New Orleans, the court-martial of Lieut. William Galley. After nearly three years of digging into Miami operations of the Federal Housing Authority, Herald reporters tracked down the existence of an alleged political slush fund for Florida Senator Edward J. Gurney. Although the paper backed Nixon in 1972, it has kept reporters busy...
...Green Chapel come, I charge you." --Sir Gawain and the Green Knight...
...thing is certain: Knight has the solid backing of his fellow agents. Says one veteran agent: "This appointment is different from the past Nixon track record; he's not a former Nixon advance man. He's his own man-and he doesn't owe anybody anything...
Tough cops still come in two styles -young and hip, and old and grizzled.The former category is represented by Tony Musante as Toma (ABC), a narc whose specialty is disguises. The latter style was best exemplified by last week's The Blue Knight (NBC), a four-hour special strung out over four consecutive evenings. Based on the novel by the Los Angeles policeman and bestselling author, Joseph Wambaugh, it gave William Holden a solid TV dramatic debut as a patrolman who has been on the same beat for 20 years and decides to bail...
...author, it should be admitted, has been a movie reviewer for Vogue, served as a knight in Jack Kennedy's Camelot and is now a proud member of the Nixon White House's hate list. He once wrote an article explaining how George McGovern would win the 1972 election. But he is also a distinguished Harvard historian who has won two Pulitzer prizes for books on the presidency (The Age of Jackson, 1946; John F. Kennedy, The Thousand Days...