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...regular stipends of about $2,000 a month to a number of friendly Congressmen, including Ford during the 1960s when he was House minority leader. The witness said that he paid the money to an intermediary, who turned it over to legislators; the intermediary denies it. Attorney General Edward Levi told TIME: "The department has found no substantiation for the charges ... Ruff is aware of them." An IRS report on the investigation was sent to Justice Department officials just as Ford became Vice President in 1973, but they discounted it because of the low credibility of the informer. Ruff began...
Hoffman is at his best here as the naive, overwhelmed Tom Levi, whose purpose in life is both limited and noble, who becomes entangled in events far beyond his wildest imaginings, and who, in the final analysis, demonstrates a resiliency and inner strength which one gathers his father, for all his brilliance, lacked. The metaphor of the marathon runner, ever striving for greater fortitude, is indeed apt, and Hoffman has found a role which, with its moments of humor and of pathos, affords him an opportunity to turn in a performance strikingly reminiscent, in its portrayal of a character confused...
...smaller seminars have not experienced a similar rise in applicants. Herbert W. Levi, professor of Biology, has given his one-person laboratory seminar on spiders for about five years
...least part of this drama within American drama involves Jones himself. In his Levi's jacket and open-necked shirt, standing 6 ft. 3 in. even without his stetson, Jones seems to have sprung from a Marlboro ad. In fact this quintessential Texan-moving slowly, talking slowly, even smiling slowly -was born in Albuquerque. From 13 on, he worked as a janitor, a cattle weigher, a powderman in a Colorado mine, a highway surveyor, a truck driver, a uranium prospector...
Kelley last week gave the bureau a check for $335 to cover the valances and said he would gladly repay his aides for the gifts if any federal regulations have been violated. Levi has not said what he will do about his flowers, which presumably have wilted...