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...Michael Novak is such a man, and his New Generation attempts at once to criticize contemporary Catholicism and to invest it with new life by expanding its intellectual and social vision. It is the angry and hopeful manifesto of a young Catholic--a personal statement of faith and a challenge to others. As a general critique and broad declaration of purposes, A New Generation often fascinates, sometimes convinces, and occasionally aggravates; but as a program upon which liberal Catholics could agree and act, it fails--largely because it is too vague...
...Gertrude Novak, a Senate clerk who, with her late husband, was a partner in Baker-inspired motel and stock ventures, testified that she frequently went to Baker's office to pick up sums ranging from $1,000 to $13,300, always in cash. She said that the money was for operating expenses at the Carousel Motel in Ocean City, Md. Baker and the Novak family built the $1,200,000 motel in 1962, later sold it to Serv-U Corp., a vending-machine firm in which Baker is a major stockholder...
...Republicans All, a form chart of sorts on the multitude of contenders, declared and undeclared, bold and shy, for the Republican presidential nomination; by Robert Novak of the New York Herald Tribune...
What Trudy Novak seemed to remember most vividly was the way Bobby Baker tossed bundles of money about like so much laundry. Frequently, she said, she would stop by Baker's Capitol office to pick up sizable sums for the Carousel's operating expenses. It was always in cash. Once, she said, she found his desk stacked with nearly $15,000 in $100 bills. Baker himself rushed off to the Senate floor, leaving Trudy and his secretary to count out $13,300 for the motel. "That's where I lost some faith in Mr. Baker," she said...
Most of what Witness Novak had to say was already public knowledge (TIME, Nov. 8). But her appearance did accomplish one thing: it at least generated some sort of start to the hearings -after eight weeks of shilly-shallying by a Senate committee all too obviously reluctant to undertake an investigation that might hit close to home...