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...first it looked like a fleeting flap, handled swiftly and skillfully by the Administration to limit the damage. Max Hugel, a millionaire merchant with no visible qualifications to hold his post as director of clandestine operations for the CIA, had been publicly accused of illegal stock manipulations by two vengeful Wall Street brokers who had gone bankrupt trying to promote stock in Hugel's former business. Denying any wrongdoing, Hugel nevertheless promptly resigned as the CIA's deputy director of operations and was quickly replaced by a career CIA operative, John Henry Stein. Sighed a White House aide...
Muriel Humphrey's decision to wed High School Friend Max Brown (both over 65), Pepper nodded cheerful approval...
...social issues, such as abortion, busing and school prayer, the coalition is not likely to be effective. Says Max Friedersdorf, head of White House congressional lobbying efforts: "Those issues are so emotional, are of such deep personal belief, that they are difficult for the White House or any group to lobby on. It is an area we are wise to stay...
Even in the Republican-controlled Senate, the White House had been counting on canny Louisiana Democrat Russell Long to hold the line against a potential flood of damaging amendments; despite the blandishments of Congressional Liaison Chief Max Friedersdorf, Long's support in the absence of a compromise is no longer assured...
...outside the memorial room, toward the back of the chapel, there is now a separate memorial plaque for those to whom the church could not be dedicated: "Harvard University has not forgotten her sons, Fritz Daur, Konrad Delbruck, Kurt Peters, Max Schneider, who under opposite standards gave their lives for their country...