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White is lobbying hard for a bill, introduced by Senators Warren Magnuson and Adlai Stevenson III, to establish a national oil company to compete with private producers. This proposed federal corporation would explore and drill for oil and gas on public lands. The price of its output would be strictly related to the cost of production, and so is supposed to serve as a yardstick by which to measure the profit margins of private companies. "The bill," White says, "has a chance, a bare chance, to pass...
...Associate Editor Ed Magnuson, this week's is his 15th cover story dealing with Watergate."By now," he says, "I'm addicted." Nation Picture Researcher Alice Rose George assembled photos of the cast of 43 characters that accompanies the story, and Reporter-Researcher Robert Goldstein, who has also been working on Watergate all year, interviewed a number of prominent lawyers and historians. He, along with several other TIME editors and correspondents, met the judge at a dinner in Washington not long ago. By this time, Sirica had been told he was being considered for Man of the Year...
...authors even wrote that the conspiracy trial of John Mitchell and Maurice Stans opened in New York City; in fact it was postponed. Watergate is an unfinished story. This book, however, bears brisk witness to an important fact: it is far too early to forget or forgive. · Ed Magnuson...
...Washington files were Teletyped to New York, where Associate Editor Ed Magnuson wrote the cover story. In the past five weeks he has written our cover story on Senator Sam Ervin, who is directing an investigation of the affair, and our cover on L. Patrick Gray's contested nomination as FBI director-two stories spawned by the Watergate disclosures...
...hardest workers, he has always been well known to anyone dealing regularly with the Senate." Now, as chairman of the select Senate committee investigating the Watergate affair, Ervin is becoming equally familiar to the public. For this week's cover story on Ervin, written by Associate Editor Ed Magnuson, MacNeil met with the Senator in his Senate offices, at his hideaway in the Capitol and on his home territory in North Carolina. Fellow correspondents, meanwhile, retraced Ervin's early years in Morganton, N.C., and pored over 30 volumes of testimony from his Senate com mittee hearings...