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Richard Nixon got angry when he was burdened with too many budget details and fired his budget director, Robert Mayo. Lyndon Johnson used to glaze over as his budget was discussed, reviving only to query bizarre items like the crotch size in the Air Force uniform trousers. Ford not only put the figures together; it is plain to almost anyone who reads the budget documents that here is a splendid profile of Ford himself, a statement of his personal and political philosophy...
...Richard Helms, James Schlesinger and William Colby-and will soon have a fourth, George Bush. The FBI has had four chiefs: J. Edgar Hoover, L. Patrick Gray (acting), William Ruckelshaus (acting) and Clarence Kelley. The Office of Management and Budget (formerly the Budget Bureau) has had five directors: Robert Mayo, George Shultz, Caspar Weinberger, Roy Ash and James Lynn...
...sight of her .45 coming up through the crowd. Last week, almost unnoticed in the flurry about the incident in Sacramento, federal authorities in Santa Barbara, Calif., jailed two drifters on charges of threatening to kill the President. When police arrested Gary S. DeSur, 31, and Preston M. Mayo, 24, for stealing a television set, they discovered notes outlining a plot to assassinate Ford during his visit to Sacramento. Santa Barbara Detective Robert A. Zapata reported that the notes told how the two men had planned to break into an armory in San Francisco "and get guns, a sniper scope...
Associate Editor Mayo Mohs brought similar journalistic dedication to this week's story on the beer industry (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS). A beer connoisseur since college days, Mohs has savored on his travels such exotic brews as Red China's official Tsingtao and a Thai beer called Singhe, which is reputedly one of the world's most potent. Mohs' selfless research continued during a recent weekend trip to the White Mountains of New Hampshire. There he sampled several Northeastern small-brewery beers, savoring each bouquet as if it were a Château Mouton-Rothschild. Unfortunately...
...catcher for a team in Cuba. Two years later Finley heard about a kid pitcher from Hertford, N.C., who had peppered his foot with shotgun pellets in a hunting accident. Finley descended upon Hertford, stalked the youngster, captured him with a $75,000 bonus and sent him to the Mayo Clinic for a foot operation. As a publicity stunt, Finley told the 18-year-old to call himself Catfish. Ten years later, Jim ("Catfish") Hunter won the Cy Young Award as the best pitcher in the American League. Catcher Gene Tenace, Outfielder Joe Rudi and Relief Pitcher Rollie Fingers...