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...Washingtonians intent on a sunny weekend at Chesapeake Bay or the ocean beyond, the clogged approaches to Maryland's Chesapeake Bay Bridge regularly add two or three hours to the Saturday morning journey. When traffic halts, motorists unlimber lunch baskets, folding chairs and martini shakers, and the picnic begins. Kids flip Frisbees while their elders chat. Those dreaded approaches may be the world's longest, narrowest picnic grounds...
...most popular method of saving money and enjoying it is camping. Last week, from Maryland and Virginia's Assateague Island to California's Yosemite Valley, the national parks were in something like a state of siege-and they were still a month away from the season peak. Unhappily. Americans in their massive, neo-Thoreauvian urge threaten to create precisely the environment they are trying to escape. A haven like Yosemite, once celebrated by naturalists and the National Geographic, offers roughly the solitude of Central Park on a weekday. Says one Interior Department official: "Visiting Glacier National Park...
...former U.S. Senator from Maryland and brother of a onetime U.S. Ambassador to Argentina, Bruce came by his diplomatic leanings naturally. During World War I, he spurned the socially acceptable officer's commission and enlisted in the Army. He served in the artillery ranks in France, where he earned his officer's epaulets. Following law school, he entered law practice in Maryland, then spent most of the next twelve years in private life...
...first time he had done so. As a constituent, Frenkil had received the help of Maryland Representatives in an earlier dispute with the AOC. Now, feeling the need for a more powerful political persuader, he turned to Nathan Voloshen, 72, a friend of House Speaker John McCormack, and hired him as counsel for a fee of $28,000. Voloshen, who has pleaded guilty to influence-peddling charges in another case, earned his money. During 1967 and 1968 he met regularly with Frenkil's firm and representatives of the AOC to press Frenkil's claims. Once, according...
Frenkil tried to apply pressure from other directions as well. His firm performed $45,000 worth of remodeling work on Boggs' Maryland home, charging the Congressman a bargain-basement rate of $21,000 for the job. Frenkil himself successfully solicited the support of former Maryland Senator Daniel Brewster as well as Louisiana's Long. According to the grand jury testimony, Frenkil offered Long and Brewster one-third of whatever he recovered in exchange for their assistance. Long admits that his office interceded with the AOC on Frenkil's behalf, but denies any wrongdoing on his part...