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More difficult is Nixon's job of staking out a program that is different from Eisenhower's, without doing damage to the Administration's record. Nixon's solution: the timeless Washington device known as the calculated news leak. Thus a steady stream of stories trickled into the nation's press, attributing Nixon's views to "high authorities," "Nixon spokesmen," or "well-informed circles." Thus the U.S. learns that Nixon intends to speak out on his own after the nomination, that he considers Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson a political liability, that he has played...
...first, Strauss tried to bluster out the storm by calling in the U.S. and British ambassadors to complain at the leak. When that did not work, he grudgingly conceded that he would make no further move on the Spanish project without specific NATO approval-which now may prove hard to get. Even after a stormy 2½-hour session with the West German Parliament's defense committee, Strauss continued to insist that "the logic of our ideas and assessment of strategic necessities cannot be disputed," and West Germans asked in hurt tones how their allies could cherish such unworthy...
...brass-the high-priced officers known as "Dr. Stanton's Book of the Month Club"-are privy to the board's high secrets. Every night the names are scrambled and a canvas curtain is drawn to make doubly sure that spying charwomen will learn nothing they can leak to NBC. Still the dope gets around. Last fall, for instance, the grapevine had it that Garry Moore was coming down. How could his relaxed variety show compete in the same time slot with NBC's highly touted Ford Startime...
Although his championship was safe, Brabham decided to try to win the title in style. Burning .rubber, he was in first place and in the last mile of the 218.4-mile race when his Cooper-Climax faltered and stopped, just 500 yds. from the finish line; a leak had emptied his fuel tank. Brabham climbed out of the cockpit and began pushing his 1,000-lb. car home, while the crowd of 15,000 cheered him on. As he pushed his way down the stretch, three cars flashed by to finish, led by his protege, 22-year-old New Zealander...
...Vatican's Holy Office to revive the worker-priests under strict controls. Back from Rome came a firm no. Last week, as French cardinals and bishops met in Paris to discuss the situation, the Holy Office's confidential directive was published in Le Monde (after an obvious leak, perhaps from a disgruntled French prelate...