Word: misses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...could the vaunted tax-hunting sleuths of the Internal Revenue Service originally miss errors of nearly half a million dollars in a taxpayer's returns over a four-year period-especially when the filer is as uniquely noticeable as the President of the United States? The embarrassed officials of the IRS have a handy shield against discussing such a gross oversight: the law that bans revelations about any taxpayer's situation unless court action is taken. But the conclusion is inescapable that Nixon benefited from his high office and that the IRS would never have moved to recover...
...Bebe Rebozo, the President's good friend, was in turn given or lent for the personal use of two other Nixon intimates: Rose Mary Woods, the President's personal secretary, and Donald Nixon, his brother. This claim by Kalmbach directly contradicts sworn testimony by Rebozo and Miss Woods. Rebozo contends that the money was kept untouched for three years in a safety deposit box and then returned to Hughes. The testimony also conflicts with similar public assertions by President Nixon. Kalmbach testified that his source for this information was Rebozo...
...picture ends in tragedy, but one which is more muted than it might have been without the efforts of Slide and Tanner. It also winds up as a small but authentic surprise gift for audiences. Miss Hawn's performance is rather too obviously calculated, but her male co-stars-Atherton, Sacks and Johnson-are adroit throwaway artists. The script neatly balances action, suspense and soft-spoken humor. Best of all, 26-year-old Director Steven Spielberg, in his first feature after a promising start in TV, emerges as a man to watch. It is easy to patronize and satirize...
Martha Clarke, a retired schoolteacher in the mythical town of Homochitto, Miss., still lives in the family homestead. But now, in her mid-70s, she is almost blind and beginning to turn senile. Picking their way past a Spanish oak tree and a small jungle of cane and Virginia creeper, Martha's nephews and nieces stage a meeting of the clan in the ancestral manse. While she sits in her period rocker, they discuss their Aunt Martha problem as if she were as inanimate as the leather classics in the glass bookcases about them. "Isn't it strange...
...Miss Douglas' notion of family politics can make Machiavelli seem an innocent, as anyone knows who has read her prizewining first novel, A Family's Affairs. In Apostles of Light, Martha's relatives talk love and practice expediency. Before her on-again, off-again brain registers what is happening, Martha's house has been converted into a small nursing home called Golden Age Acres and filled with motel lobby furniture, polyethylene philodendrons, and assorted old folks eagerly abandoned by their own loving...