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...Japan, the disclosures aroused howls of "Kuroi kiri!" (black mist or political corruption). In the U.S., a kind of black mist has been swirling around corporate-Government connections too, and it got denser last week. Deputy Defense Secretary William P. Clements Jr. told a joint House-Senate committee that Northrop has paid back to the Air Force $564,013 for "improper costs" on contracts-apparently representing political contributions for which Northrop had quietly charged the Pentagon. But Clements was embarrassed by the subcommittee's disclosure of the names of 55 more Pentagon personnel who had been guests of military...
...NORTHROP FRYE came to Harvard last year to give the Charles Eliot Norton lecture on poetry, he was greeted with an enthusiasm similar to that granted Christ upon his entrance into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday. Here, finally, was the redeemer of English Literature and--through some kind of magical transformation--of the humanities. Here was the man who could bring together all of the specialists entrenched in the battlelines of literary criticism--the New Critics, the Freudian, the historical-approachers, the biographical-literati, the "high culture" mongerers, and the platitudinists of Christian and Marxist interpretations of literature. Here...
...problem first surfaced in 1973, when the Watergate special prosecutor's office discovered that Gulf had illegally contributed about $150,000 to the 1972 campaigns of various politicians. Several other corporations-among them, Northrop, 3-M, Goodyear and American Airlines-have admitted making the same type of illicit contribution. But there was something strange about Gulfs case. Though other companies admitted that top executives knew about the gifts, Gulfs man on the spot was only its lobbying chief in Washington: Vice President Claude C. Wild...
Heavy Prodding. Last June, Northrop Chief Executive Thomas V. Jones promised to turn over to the subcommittee the names of its Government guests, then had second thoughts, possibly because it realized the backlash it risked. So instead of sending the list to the Senate, Northrop turned it over to the Pentagon, which began a series of investigations. But the months ground on without the Senators hearing anything further on the matter...
...naval operations for air warfare; Admiral John P. Weinel, former planning director for the Joint Chiefs; Nevada Democratic Senator Howard Cannon, chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Tactical Air Power; and Democratic Representative Robert Legett of the House Armed Services Committee. All were in a strong position to help Northrop sell...